If this is what were told, I love imagining all the groovy things we dont know about!!!
Cetacean Intelligence Mission
(SHARKS WITH FRIGGEN LAZER BEAMS ATTACHED TO THEIR HEADS!)
The Navy has been training bottlenose dolphins since at least the late 1980s to patrol and protect warships, hunt for mines, and even to carry darts and target divers for attack. Once word of the program got out, animal rights activists raised public awareness causing the Navy to turn the details highly classified; today, little is known about the extent of the operations. We do know that the animals were fitted with electronic harnesses, which ostensibly relayed signal commands, and that they were trained to recognize divers in wetsuits like prowlers in the night. How the mechanism of firing the darts was accomplished is anyone’s guess.