Talk:Animals in espionage

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"Espionage", and other military

To remove the redlink to espionage, I did pipe it, with some hesitation, to human-source intelligence, perhaps more properly clandestine human-source intelligence -- it's the more correct term for espionage; it's the human-source that troubles me.

Many of the cited cases are more general military than intelligence. There are a number of established uses for military working dogs, and a great many fiascos. For example, the Soviets, in WWII, taught explosive-laden dogs to associate tanks with food. Unfortunately (not just from the canine perspective), they trained them with Russian tanks. The bat incendiary concept went fairly far along before being abandoned. Is this really the correct title?

(looks at cat who is carefully CAT-scanning me) "And for whom are you working, Skyler?" There are countermeasures; see [1] Howard C. Berkowitz 18:50, 5 January 2011 (UTC)