The CIA’s Attack Dolphins
So long and thanks for all the fish, they say 🐬
Mike Benz, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online, explores how the CIA studied using “attack dolphins” as a lethal weapon to sink ships. This is an extensive five and a half -hour broadcast but do note: The sound is cut out for the first three minutes so you’ll need to first forward until you hear Benz speaking.
These studies occurred as a part of Project Oxygas and involved bottlenose dolphins. Much of the research took place in the 1960s. The project became open knowledge in 2019 when classified Project Oxygas documents were disclosed to fulfill a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request. More recently, Russia used dolphins to help protect some of its Black Sea bases in the Ukraine War.


