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: /p>According to OSS research chief Stanley Lovell, the notion of a cat-guided bomb was broached in the U.S., and actual tests were made. The result was as Jed Babbin wrote: the cat became unconscious within seconds of being dropped, and couldn't guide the bomb.
p>This story is reported in Lovell's memoir, Of Spies and Stratagems , in the chapter "Schemes That Failed to Work," along with the story of the Bat Bomb and the attempt to dose Hitler with female hormones. br> -- Rich Rostrom /p> p> CALLING IN SIC br> Re: Amos Blood's Too Cool for School : /p>
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