an army of loyal and obedient zombie cats.
It was an operation that covertly received funding, not in the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, but in the millions. The idea was to transform regular, everyday cats into something hideous, something akin to the Terminator or Robocop. CIA boffins came up with the ingeniously odd idea of implanting transmitting devices and listening gadgets into the bodies (and even the tails) of cats, and then have them wander around the grounds and—if the CIA got really lucky—the interior of the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. Anything the cats might have picked up, conversation-wise, was deemed that it could have had a major bearing on national security.
Believe it or not, the CIA was also involved in a plan to create zombie cats that were obedient to commands. The result was, to say the least, unsuccessful.
Demonstrating that the CIA’s finest knew more than a bit about how to place a cat into a zombified condition, not only did they slice the poor animals open and fill them with wires and metal: they also tinkered with the brains of the cats. Doing so placed the cats into a kind of lobotomized, subservient state, one in which their natural instincts and wild urges were reigned-in, thus allowing the CIA to keep their zombie-spies under control at all times. Unfortunately for those involved in the operation, and particularly so the first cat that was designated for zombification, it didn’t work out so well. And that’s putting it mildly.
One of those that had an awareness of the program (which went by the amusing, but admittedly appropriate title of Acoustic Kitty), was Victor L. Marchetti, Jr., formerly a special assistant to the Deputy Director. Marchetti says that when the controlled cat in question was ready for its very first mission, CIA agents carefully released it close to the Soviet Embassy and prompted the animal to make its way to the building, where, hopefully, it would pick up a few juicy nuggets of information. What the 007-like zombie cat actually did was to get squashed under the wheels of a speeding taxi. The undead cat was now well and truly dead.
The CIA, having decided that the program was not going to work as well in the real world as it did on paper, quickly closed it down and gave it the proverbial bullet to the head. So far as we know, the project has never since been reanimated—so to speak.
Cattle Mutilations
See also: Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Mad Cow Disease
Since at least 1967, just about the entire United States of America has been beset by a disturbing phenomenon. It has infamously become known as cattle mutilations. Exactly who, or indeed what, is responsible for the widespread killing of cattle under very bizarre circumstances is far from clear or understood. On many occasions, farmers, police officers, and veterinarians throughout North America have come across cases where cattle have been subjected to unusual surgical procedures, such as having organs expertly removed and being completely drained of blood—and also in the exact locations where both UFO and black, unmarked helicopter activity is highly prevalent, too.
This has inevitably led to suspicions that extraterrestrials are engaged in a covert, and possibly sinister, program that may relate to the attempted introduction of a lethal virus of truly cosmic origins into the human food chain. Adherents of such theories suggest that the destruction of the human species in a War of the Worlds-style scenario may not be the only way to systematically wipe us out.
On the other hand, there’s not necessarily a need to bring aliens into the mix at all. A report from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dated February 2, 1979, and which has been released under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, lends significant credence to the possibility that the helicopters of unknown origin are implicated in the cattle mutilation mystery to some degree. The report also suggests that the mutilators may have a far more down to earth point of origin, and may very possibly be utilizing the UFO mystery as a highly convenient cover for clandestine bacteriological and biological warfare activities. A significant section of the FBI document at issue states:
“Officer Gabe Valdez, New Mexico State Police, has been handling investigations of these mutilations within New Mexico. Information furnished to this office by Officer Valdez indicates that the animals are being shot with some type of paralyzing drug and the blood is being drawn from the animal after an injection of an anti-coagulant. Officer Valdez is very adamant in his opinion that these mutilations are the work of the U.S. government, and that it is some clandestine operation either by the CIA or the Department of Energy, and in all probability is connected with some type of research into biological warfare.”
The debilitating, eventually deadly Alzheimer’s disease may be escallating in America because of a rise in mad cow disease in the nation’s meat supply.
A terrifying theory for the mutilations, one that has nothing whatsoever to do with bio-war or UFOs, has been carefully developed by Colm Kelleher, Ph.D., formerly of the Ontario Cancer Institute. In 1979, statistics from the U.S. Center for Disease Control show that, by that time, 653 people had officially died of Alzheimer’s in the United States. By 1991, the figure had reached 13,768. Eleven years later, it was 58,785. That is an increase of astonishing proportions in a little less than a quarter of a century. As of 2013, more than five million Americans are estimated to have Alzheimer’s. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, an American develops the disease once every sixty-eight seconds of every minute of every day. By 2050, it will be once every thirty-three seconds. It’s perhaps not even wise to muse upon what the figure might be by the turn of the twenty-second century, lest you wish to spend your nights sleeplessly tossing and turning in your bed.
Colm Kelleher believes that this massive increase is not due to Alzheimer’s, after all. Instead, he believes that the U.S. food-chain—with the emphasis on the cattle herd—is overwhelmingly infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy: BSE, or mad cow disease, which can lead to variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in people. In this particular scenario, countless Americans are being disastrously misdiagnosed with Alzheimer’s, when the real cause is vCJD, or a further mutant variant.
Kelleher believes that the cattle-mutilators are stealthily trying to prevent public panic, and are secretly monitoring the food-chain to determine how serious the spread of disease is and how fast it is growing. Whether the mutilators work for an agency of government, such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) or the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), or if they are private organizations, secretly contracted by officialdom, is a matter very much unknown.
Given that both vCJD and BSE provoke erratic and, at times, distinctly violent behavior, will we see—in, perhaps just a few more decades from now—an entire nation held in the vice-like grip of a devastating virus that provokes major changes in human personality? The zombie apocalypse of the future may not involve the infected feeding voraciously on the uninfected. Instead, we may see a landscape filled with millions upon millions of shuffling, scarred souls whose minds are descending into nothingness, and all as a tragic and catastrophic result of a love for burgers and steaks.
