The Tacana Project

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The Tacana Project
Project Name : The Tacana Project

The Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union was in no shortage of wacky espionage ideas, but The Tacana Project was on another level of strange. The idea behind this declassified project was to use pigeons, having already excelled in carrying wartime messages on the battlefield, for a new frontier: espionage. A BBC article from 2019 detailed some of the specifics behind Operation Tacana, specifically how the U.S. was attaching tiny cameras to the birds and conducting tests as to their efficiency. These tests actually came back with half-decent results, and a full-fledged pigeon mission was written on the books in September of 1976. The rest of the story, unfortunately, remains classified.

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