Coffee With Jeff

Three short tales on today’s show. The first is about a C.I.A. program to use kittens as spying devices. Next the story of Smokey Bear, and we finish that up with a ship the public wanted to call Boaty McBoatface! Show notes and links: Operation Acoustic Kitty • Damn Interesting (damninteresting.com) Acoustic Kitty, an American Spy (theatlantic.com) 4. The Sad Case of Acoustic Kitty – Top 5 Crazy Government Experiments (howstuffworks.com) The CIA Plan to Use Cats as Spies (and the Taxi That Ruined It) (mentalfloss.com) Smokey Bear – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) The Real Smokey Bear Has A New Biography | Smart News (smithsonianmag.com) The story of Smokey Bear (fs.fed.us) Boaty McBoatface and the False Promise of British Democracy (theatlantic.com) RRS Sir David Attenborough – Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) Boaty McBoatface wins poll to name polar research vessel | Environment (theguardian.com) Boaty McBoatface: Man behind name suggestion for £200m research vessel apologises ‘profusely’ (independent.co.uk)