What a Cat-astrophe! Story behind the 中央情報局's 陰謀（を企てる） to use '秘かに調査する cats' comes to the big 審査する in new short film Acoustic Kitty

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The idea to use cats as 秘かに調査するs sounds like a fantastical 陰謀（を企てる） out of a science fiction movie.

Yet, 支援する in the 1960s, that was 正確に／まさに the 計画（する） dreamed up by creative 中央情報局 スパイ／執行官s as they 試みる／企てるd to find new methods of 知能 during the 冷淡な War.

And now for the first time, the story behind the bizarre would-be 知能 method has been told in a new short film.

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Under pressure: Ben Willbond plays Agent Cooper, a CIA agent assigned to work on the Acoustic Kitty project in the 1960s

Under 圧力: Ben Willbond plays スパイ／執行官 Cooper, a 中央情報局 スパイ／執行官 割り当てるd to work on the Acoustic Kitty 事業／計画（する） in the 1960s

London-born film-製造者 Jennifer Sheridan has brought the little-known 'tail' of how American スパイ／執行官s transpired to use cats to 秘かに調査する on the ロシアのs to the big 審査する.

The 事業／計画（する） only became public knowledge when the とじ込み／提出するs were 秘密制限を解除するd 13 years ago, showing how the 機関's ambitious 計画（する）s failed to materialise.

A cat was surgically implanted with listening 装置s in the hope it would 記録，記録的な／記録する conversations between ロシアの 秘かに調査するs.

Come on Mr Pickles! The film tells the story of the CIA's mission to turn cats into spies during the Cold War

Come on Mr Pickles! The film tells the story of the 中央情報局's 使節団 to turn cats into 秘かに調査するs during the 冷淡な War

However, the 使節団 failed - unsurprisingly - but perhaps not in the way you would 推定する／予想する.?

支援する in 2001, former 中央情報局 officer 勝利者 Marchetti told the Telegraph: 'They slit the cat open, put 殴打／砲列s in him, wired him up. The tail was used as an antenna. They made a monstrosity.

'They 実験（する）d him and 実験（する）d him. They 設立する he would walk off the 職業 when he got hungry, so they put another wire in t o 無視／無効 that.'

The 実験 is believed to have cost the 中央情報局 millions of dollars with no results to show for it.

Has it worked? Agent Cooper has spent years working on the project with his colleague Agent Jones (Katherine Ryan)

Has it worked? スパイ／執行官 Cooper has spent years working on the 事業／計画（する） with his 同僚 スパイ／執行官 Jones (Katherine Ryan)

The film,?Acoustic Kitty is based on the events and 星／主役にするs Ben Willbond (Horrible Histories, The 厚い Of It, Rev.) as スパイ／執行官 Cooper, who has spent years working on the 事業／計画（する）.

After years of 失敗, スパイ／執行官 Cooper has become a 的 for jokes and mocking の中で?his fellow スパイ／執行官s, にもかかわらず his vehement 決意 to 証明する them wrong.

Finally, with the help of スパイ／執行官 Jones - played by Canadian comedienne Katherine Ryan (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Never Mind The Buzzcocks) - Cooper finally 首尾よく implants a listening 装置 inside a moggy and it looks like success is just a whisker away...

Go get them Mr Pickles! At one point, it looks like Project Acoustic Kitty may not be such a hair-brained idea after all...

Go get them Mr Pickles! At one point, it looks like 事業／計画（する） Acoustic Kitty may not be such a hair-brained idea after all...

The movie, which will be 審査するd for the first time this week in London, also 星／主役にするs Cristian Solimeno (急ぐ, The IT （人が）群がる), Andrew Bicknell (The Dark Knight) and David Calvitto (12 Angry Men) with a voiceover by Jeff Fahey (Lost, The Lawnmower Man).?

The movie was 基金d after Jennifer won the Grand Prize at the Virgin マスコミ Shorts Awards in 2012 for her short film ロケット／急騰する.

Like Acoustic Kitty, ロケット／急騰する starred another four-legged furry friend - but that time it was her own dog, a 国境 Terrier 指名するd Bowie.

ロケット／急騰する saw Bowie decide to build a space ship out of the contents of the 再生利用する 貯蔵所, which charmed the パネル盤 of 裁判官s, which 含むd Julie Walters.

Acoustic Kitty is 始める，決める for 解放（する） at international film festivals next year. For more （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, visit the 公式の／役人 Acoustic Kitty website.?

Acoustic Kitty Trailer from Jennifer Sheridan on Vimeo.

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