CIA
The CIA is the United States’ foreign intelligence agency. It collects and analyzes foreign intelligence and conducts covert action as directed by the president.
During the Cold War, the CIA spent about $20 million on "Acoustic Kitty," implanting a microphone, battery and antenna inside a live cat to spy on Soviet diplomats. In its first field test, a taxi hit the cat near the Soviet Embassy. The CIA shut it down as impractical.
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In 1944, the OSS (CIA's predecessor) published a sabotage manual: "do everything through channels," "give long speeches," "hold meetings during critical work," "require three approvals for one person's job." These enemy-sabotage tactics eerily resemble modern bureaucracy.
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