WTF: What The Fact: Weird Undercover Agents

 Animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

You sure won't believe this. You just can't make this up... Here is a list of some of animals incarcerated for alleged espionage.

1. Spy Squirrels Ring Nabbed

In 2007, fourteen squirrels were arrested in Iran. Yes, you read correctly. Fourteen squirrels were spotted near a nuclear enrichment plant and taken in for questioning by the Iranian army. What was their crime? What were they being charged with? Espionage. Apparently they were “spy squirrels.”

2. Spying Pigeon

So apparently, the pigeon above, was captured by Indian police on suspicion it was an 'undercover agent' for Pakistan.The poor bird, booked by the Indian cops as a "suspected spy" according to The Guardian. 

“Nothing adverse has been found, but we have kept the bird in our custody,” senior police superintendent Rakesh Kaushal told local media. 

3. The Snooping Vulture

A Griffon Vulture is seen at the veterinary clinic at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv January 29, 2016. The vulture from an Israeli nature reserve with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter was captured by residents of the south Lebanese town of Bint Jbeilon on suspicion of espionage after flying across the border.

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Baz Ratner/Reuters

4. The 'OO7' Duck

A French "spy" "duck" in custody in Egypt. 

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State media

Several alert Egyptian citizens alerted authorities to what was reported as a 'spy duck' with a surveillance device, or bomb, on its back. Authorities arrested the bird, a French research subject. When a veterinarian established the device was, in fact, a tracker, and the bird was, in fact, a stork, police moved to release the bird. The stork's whereabouts are unknown, but last anyone heard, the stork was waiting for the prosecutor to sign off on its release. But that's not the strangest animal accusation Egypt has made...

5. The Eerie Dolphin

Credits to The World

In another case of Israel supposedly coopting wildlife, a dolphin was acting fishy off Gaza, and attracted the attention of Hamas's Qassam Brigade Naval Commandos. Upon investigating, they found what was described as "a murderer" of a dolphin, equipped with a surveillance package. As usual, no photos of the dolphin nor its equipment were released. The dolphin's whereabouts are unknown.  

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