Declassified by Author Daniel P. Douglas

Podcast Summary: Operation Acoustic Kitty In this episode, we explore one of the Cold War's most perfectly absurd classified operations: the CIA's $20 million attempt to transform house cats into mobile surveillance devices. Between 1961 and 1967, Operation Acoustic Kitty saw veterinary surgeons implanting radio transmitters, threading antennas through feline spines, and attempting to train cats t...

In 1994—five years after the Berlin Wall fell—Pentagon scientists at Wright Laboratory in Ohio officially proposed developing a chemical weapon to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other, requesting $7.5 million ($15 million today) to figure out if they could weaponize homosexuality. This wasn't some forgotten relic from the paranoid 1950s; this was post-Cold War military thinking...

On September 22, 1979, an aging American satellite detected the unmistakable double-flash signature of a nuclear explosion over the South Atlantic Ocean—except no country ever admitted to detonating a weapon. The Vela Incident remains one of the Cold War's most perplexing mysteries, with the CIA, military intelligence, and White House unable to agree whether it was a clandestine nuclear test (poss...

In 1958, the US Air Force hired Carl Sagan to plan history's most expensive vandalism—nuking the moon to intimidate the Soviets. The program got cancelled when someone finally asked "Wait, WHAT?" Project A119's declassified absurdity examined. Let’s listen in, shall we? This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit authord...