Taken from the Toronto Star:The odd-looking – but harmless – "poppy coin" was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology."
"It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source," wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. "Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top."
One contractor believed someone had placed two of the quarters in an outer coat pocket after the contractor had emptied the pocket hours earlier. "Coat pockets were empty that morning and I was keeping all of my coins in a plastic bag in my inner coat pocket," the contractor wrote.
2 comments:
Why is America so naive?
Do you remember the toonie with the polar bear inside? Or wait a mintue, is that the everyday toonie.
A coin is probably the stupidest thing in terms of espionage: they are easily lost and readily spent! Also, why is an American contractor carrying money in a plastic bag? Or is a change purse also now known as a common espionage device?
LOL!
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