DoD mistakes Canadian quarter for spy device 2007-05-07 09:55 Anonymous Coward
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on Monday May 07 2007, @09:55AM
An anonymous reader writes "Turn out those bugged Canadian quarters the defence department was worried about were, get this, real quarters afterall. Back in January the Department of Defence released an espionage warning after American defence contracters found "odd-looking" coins in their pocket after visiting Canada. From the article: "The worried contractors described the coins as "anomalous" and "filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology," according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP." Well, apparrently those "odd-looking" coins were actually commemorative poppy coins to celebrate our war dead. And rare? The nation's biggest coffee chain, Tim Hortons', was giving them out by the fist-load in 2004."
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