古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
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in the 1960s, when the cold war was at its height, the cia tried to turn cats into bugs for listening in on soviet diplomats in public places. a battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat, and an antenna into its tail. and to prevent it from wandering off in search of food, the cia implanted a device to suppress the cat's sense of hunger. the cat was trained to approach selected individuals on command. the training and testing went well.
the cat's first mission was eavesdropping on two soviet diplomats in a park across the soviet compound in washington, dc. the cat was released nearby, and it was crossing the street when it was run over by a taxi and killed. "project acoustic kitty", which involved five years of work and the expenditure of $14 million, died with the cat.
