Updated 05 November 2001, 13.16

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But Operation Acoustic Kitty, as it was called, seemed doomed to failure when the cat kept wandering off to chase mice or look for food.

Abandoned

And the project did indeed go horribly wrong when the cat was killed on its first "mission".

CIA officers sent the cat into a park to spy for them, but sadly it was hit by a taxi and died.

The operation, which was abandoned in 1967, has only just been made public.

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