Background Acoustic Kitty was a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions, intended to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies, recording the links between the buildings in the area. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail. This would allow the cats to innocuously record and transmit sound from their surroundings. Due to problems with distraction, the cat’s sense of hunger had to be addressed in another operation. Surgical and training expenses are thought to have amounted to…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The following documents pertain to the preparation for a war with the Soviet Union. Countless studies from think tanks, military academies and intelligence agencies put together tens of thousands of pages related to a war with the Soviet Union. Below, is just a sampling of what has been released. Document Archive Soviet War Survival Preparations, May 1977 [ 56 Pages, 1.51MB ] – There has been a marked increase in Soviet war survival preparations since the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1972. The apparent motivation behind these preparations is a desire by the Soviets to attan a strategic superiority that effectively…
Human Cloning, CRS Report for Congress [28 Pages, 200kb] – In December 2005, an investigation by Seoul National University, South Korea, found that scientist Hwang Woo Suk had fabricated results on deriving patient matched stem cells from cloned embryos a major setback for the field. In May 2005 Hwang had announced a significant advance in creating human embryos using cloning methods and in isolating human stem cells from cloned embryos. These developments have contributed to the debate in the 109th Congress on the moral and ethical implications of human cloning. Scientists in other labs, including Harvard University and the University…
Human cloning is the creation of a genetically identical copy of a human. It does not refer to monozygotic multiple births or the reproduction of humans/animals cells or tissue. The ethics of cloning is an extremely controversial issue. The term is generally used to refer to artificial human cloning; human clones in the form of identical twins are commonplace, with their cloning occurring during the natural process of reproduction. There are two commonly discussed types of human cloning: therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning. Therapeutic cloning involves cloning cells from an adult for use in medicine and transplants, and is an…
Not well known to the public, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) produces volumes of historical books and test for research. Below, you can find a selection of various records released by the CIA’s office of Public Affairs. Although these are considered unclassified and released publically, many of them detail once top secret operations by the agency. Intelligence Community History Profiles in Leadership: Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency & Its Predecessors [ 61 Pages, 24.5MB ] – Profiles in Leadership: Directors of the Central Intelligence Agency & Its Predecessors is the newest publication produced by the Office of Public Affairs. This unclassified…