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In 2019, a beluga whale wearing a camera harness was spotted in Norway. The group of fishermen that found the whale took the harness off and then noticed that the whale seemed pretty used to humans — prompting suspicion that the whale was trained to spy for Russia. Now, the whale has been found shot and killed, with the organizations looking after the whale filing a complaint to the Norwegian police. A Russian Whale Spy?Hvaldimir, as the whale was called, had a most unlikely story. The harness it was wearing was labeled “Equipment St. Petersburg”, and the whale didn’t seem to like it very much…

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