The Green Files: 📁

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Ever heard of Project Tacana?
No cap — the CIA literally strapped tiny $2,000 cameras to pigeons and sent them flying over Soviet targets like the Leningrad shipyards in the 1970s.

The plan?

🕵️ Snap spy pics of nuclear subs from the sky — no drones, just birds with vibes and film.

These feathered feds had 35g cameras that could take up to 200 pictures each.
About half were usable… assuming the pigeons didn’t crash into a tree, panic mid-flight, or just yeet themselves in the wrong direction.

They even tested launches out of moving cars and holes in trench coats.
(Imagine being on a date and the dude releases a surveillance bird from his sleeve. Girl, run.)

🧠 Destiny’s Take:
Forget drones. The U.S. government once trusted national security to birds who poop on statues.
And y’all wonder why things are the way they are.

The program never officially “went operational,” but the receipts are real — declassified docs, CIA museum artifacts, even photos from test flights over Navy Yards and prisons.

Moral of the story?
Next time you see a pigeon staring a little too hard… wave. Big Brother might be flapping nearby.

📎 Read the real CIA files here 👇

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06637657

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