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Speaker 1: The man that's coming.

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Speaker 2: Rule everybody, rule. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, well, interesting tale today instead of well, let's

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Speaker 3: say whale. A beluga whale suspected of having been trained

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Speaker 3: as a spy by Russia.

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Speaker 1: Can I just ask, is that the one with a

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Speaker 1: funny hump on its head?

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Speaker 4: I think that's the It's got a rough head, like

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Speaker 4: a groper head.

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Speaker 1: In the world of whales, the other cheesier.

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Speaker 4: He comes, Oh, come on, have you seen a hammerhead shark? Yeah? Oh,

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Speaker 4: that's right, that's a shark.

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Speaker 1: That's a shark.

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Speaker 3: But with whales some of I always picture like a

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Speaker 3: pilot whale when I think of wales, but a lot

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Speaker 3: of them.

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Speaker 1: Pilot whales are a sexy whale.

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Speaker 4: They're a good looking one. The humpbacks have heads that

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Speaker 4: look like a sock puppet.

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Speaker 1: And make it all the grow. Yeah yeah, yeah, A

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Speaker 1: middle aged woman, Well.

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Speaker 4: There you go.

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Speaker 3: A bluga whale expected had been trained as a spy

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Speaker 3: by Russia has been found dead off the Norwegian coast.

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Speaker 3: So the body of this animal was found floating and

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Speaker 3: taken to a nearby port for examination. The animal has

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Speaker 3: a nickname ha Vladimir, so it's been well known. It's

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Speaker 3: been spotted in Norwegian waters before with a GoPro camera

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Speaker 3: attached to a harness. The red equipment of Saint Petersburg.

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Speaker 3: I would put two and two together and come up

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Speaker 3: with spy.

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Speaker 1: That's a bit of a giveaway. Wouldn't you be a

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Speaker 1: bit more discreet about it?

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Speaker 4: Not from Saint Petersburg.

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Speaker 1: I found do not return to Kremlin.

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Speaker 3: No, So this sparked rumors know that the mammal could

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Speaker 3: be a spy whale because.

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Speaker 4: This has happened before. They have.

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Speaker 3: Russia has a history of training dolphins for military purposes

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Speaker 3: as well. What they'd used the dolphins for was to

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Speaker 3: protect submarine fleets and locate underwater mines and rescue.

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Speaker 4: Surveillance equipment did in.

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Speaker 1: The Japanese in World War II strap bombs to dolphins.

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Speaker 4: I've just made them suicide bombs and they even know.

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Speaker 5: But I think the dolphins were too smart and they

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Speaker 5: didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: They didn't go through with the.

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Speaker 4: Mission, didn't they They came back because it was so nice.

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Speaker 5: Which begs because they had Kamakazi pilots in Japan, so

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Speaker 5: humans were quite willing to go up into the sky,

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Speaker 5: fly along and then nose dives straight into an American warship,

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Speaker 5: but a dolphin wouldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: We dolphin had more sense. A dolphin doesn't have that

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Speaker 3: sense of patriotism. It would protect its family. Maybe, I

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Speaker 3: don't know. They have different driving forces.

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Speaker 5: Maybe they didn't have a briefing before when the Kamakazi

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Speaker 5: pilots went up.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't have a brief.

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Speaker 4: They were sleeping in. They just the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Does it go and fly over to here?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty sure if they put it to them,

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Speaker 5: you know, are there any questions?

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Speaker 1: Are there any questions?

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Speaker 4: What's this hole on the top of my head for starters?

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Speaker 1: Are you talking about the pilots or the dolphins?

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Speaker 4: The dolphins?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Right, okay, So during the sixties, the Soviet Union trained

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Speaker 3: dolphins to search for underwaoter mines. They'd be responsible for

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Speaker 3: protecting the entrance to the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea

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Speaker 3: in WLD War One. You know you're mentioning World War

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Speaker 3: II there? What about in World War One? Agencies used pigeons. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: for reconnaissance. They equipped the birds with tiny cameras to

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Speaker 3: provide satellite like surveillance.

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Speaker 4: They didn't have GoPros in those days. When they flew

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Speaker 4: over enemy territory and pooed on them.

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Speaker 1: Yep, they had.

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Speaker 5: There was one thing I was watching on the Hitler

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Speaker 5: channel or the History channel. They had a drug like

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Speaker 5: it was like a missile full of pigeons and the

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Speaker 5: pigeons had all these little bombs on them and they

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Speaker 5: put all the pigeons it's like a flying coop.

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Speaker 1: It didn't work. The pigeons or.

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Speaker 4: Died before they flew out.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, in because they'd fire the missile into the air.

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Speaker 5: So it's a torpedo type thing.

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Speaker 4: So they died during the procedure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you know it was doomed to fail.

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Speaker 4: What about this one.

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Speaker 3: In the nineteen sixties, the CIA developed an operation to

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Speaker 3: use cats as listening devices to get information from the

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Speaker 3: Soviet embassy.

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Speaker 4: It was called Operation Acoustic Kitty.

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Speaker 3: Really and involved in planting a microphone into the cat's

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Speaker 3: ear it sounds like a joke, but it's not, and

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Speaker 3: a radio transmitter at the base of its skull. It

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Speaker 3: took five years to complete the research and all of

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Speaker 3: that because of the intricacies of fitting a cat with

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Speaker 3: audio equipment. They embedded a four inch transmitter into the skull,

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Speaker 3: with the antenna being woven all the way.

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Speaker 4: To the tail.

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Speaker 3: This cost the CIA twenty million, and the mission was

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Speaker 3: canceled in nineteen sixty seven because, as they said, it's

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Speaker 3: fantausy hard.

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Speaker 4: To herd hat Get in there, God, get in there,

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Speaker 4: Get in and listen. Get in.

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Speaker 1: So the aerial came out of the tile.

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Speaker 3: It was woven through the tail, so it had something

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Speaker 3: embedded at the base of the skull, had a listening device.

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Speaker 3: So they had to get in there to the Soviet embassy,

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Speaker 3: jump up on a lap and listen.

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Speaker 5: So the cat had returned from the mission, and you'd

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Speaker 5: pick it up, you put the arail up.

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Speaker 1: Where would you put your ear?

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Speaker 4: That's something I get smart, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Member of the was that the CIA also was trying

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Speaker 3: to develop some kind of exploding cigar to take out

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Speaker 3: for Del Castro. The story of how these things almost

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Speaker 3: happened is quite extreme ordinary. The Marx brothers picked that up,

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Speaker 3: didn't they exploding cigar?

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Speaker 2: Well?

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Speaker 4: I think they slipped cancer.

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Speaker 1: Get him.

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Speaker 4: They played the long game.

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Speaker 1: How are we going to that? I do not know?

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Speaker 1: And that's why it's on the cut and room floor.

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Speaker 2: Okay, kids, that's just not a roof roof