Lulu the Failed CIA Dog

Lulu the Failed CIA Dog

Updated Dec 04, 2017 at 08:12AM EST by Y F.

Added Oct 20, 2017 at 03:20PM EDT by Adam.

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Lulu the Failed CIA Dog refers to a dog who was being trained by the CIA[9] to detect explosives. In a series of tweets, the CIA explained that Lulu had no interest in being a bomb-sniffing dog and was adopted by her handler. The story sparked jokes on Twitter and was covered by major media outlets.

Origin

On October 18th, 2017, the CIA Twitter account tweeted updates[1] on Lulu, a dog who after undergoing training to be an explosive detecting dog, was discharged from duty after it was determined she was uninterested in doing the job. Further explanation was offered on the CIA Blog.[10]


Famous Tweet by the CIA about Lulu the failure of a bomb sniffing dog

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The account tweeted several more pictures of the dog, explaining her story, including that she was adopted by her handler. The story went viral on Twitter, as several users jokingly related to Lulu (examples shown below).


Tweet about how Lulu is all of us, someone who isn't enjoying their government ordained life Tweets exaggerating Lulu's noncompliance as a fight against government

Meanwhile, popular Twitter user @darth[2] tweeted several photoshops of Lulu looking at the camera, as though expressing disappointment (examples shown below).


Disappointed Lulu meme Disappointed Lulu meme with Trump in background, with tiny hands

The story was covered by many major news outlets, including Washington Post,[3] Select All,[4] The New York Times,[5] Gizmodo,[13] People Magazine,[6] and more. The story even made it into international news such as the BBC[7] and DailyMail[11] in the United Kingdom, Global News[8] in Canada and Deutsche Welle[12] in Germany.

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Lulu meme about socialism Funny tweet about Lulu the CIA dog meme about how the dog will join ISIS and there will be a congressional hearing about it in like 10 to 15 years Funny tweet about wanting to stay positive but realizing CIA will probably assassinate Lulu the dog Tweet joking that Lulu read some literature that made her no longer want to work for the CIA Tweet meme of Lulu for no joining the deep state Funny tweet about conspiracy theory that there are two Lulu's

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