Flash-back Acoustic Kitty

In French, you can use the word “flash-back” (It has recently been added to the dictionary). But as the French don’t like so much all Anglicisms, you can find a side note, clarifying: On préfèrera Retour en arrière. (We prefer Retour en arrière.)

Today, I read a story, which is quite a nice “flash-back”, illuminating our current “spy world”… just technology has a little bit changed.
It’s the story about Acoustic Kitty.

“In one experiment during the Cold War a cat, dubbed Acoustic Kitty, was wired up for use as an eavesdropping platform. It was hoped that the animal – which was surgically altered to accommodate transmitting and control devices – could listen to secret conversations from window sills, park benches or dustbins.”

Beware of cats!