JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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The world’s most bizarre secret weapons
STEFAN WOLFF and DAVID HUSTINGS DUNN explain how how pigeons, cats, whales and even robotic catfish have acted as spies through the ages
THE death of a spy is rarely newsworthy, due to the secrecy surrounding it. But when a white beluga whale suspected of spying for Moscow was found dead in Norwegian waters in September, the animal soon became a minor celebrity.
Hvaldimir (a play on the Norwegian word for whale, hval, and the first name of Russian president) was even given an official autopsy by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries.
The whale had been uncovered as a spy in 2019, and is one in a long line of animals which have been used by the intelligence services. Among them was a Soviet programme to train marine animals as spies and assassins, which collapsed in 1991.
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