Undeterred by the ease with which sophisticated Western audiences have seen through their previous efforts, Iranian intelligence continues to try to bolster the credibility of their "spy squirrels" story by planting similar items in the US media. The latest example:
No agency admits to having deployed insect-size spy drones. But a number of U.S. government and private entities acknowledge they are trying. Some federally funded teams are even growing live insects with computer chips in them, with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely.
The robobugs could follow suspects, guide missiles to targets or navigate the crannies of collapsed buildings to find survivors. ...
The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems project aims to create literal shutterbugs -- camera-toting insects whose nerves have grown into their internal silicon chip so that wranglers can control their activities. DARPA researchers are also raising cyborg beetles with power for various instruments to be generated by their muscles.
"Mounting spyware on their bodies"? Yeah, we get it--just like the squirrels. Look, Iran, just give it up; here in the civilized Western world we stop believing in fairy tales once we reach adulthood.
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