U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins
Tiny transmitters found on contractors with classified security clearances
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:45 a.m. ET Jan 11, 2007

WASHINGTON - Money talks, but can it also follow your movements?

In a U.S. government warning high on the creepiness scale, the Defense Department cautioned its American contractors over what it described as a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters hidden inside.

The government said the mysterious coins were found planted on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances on at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006 as the contractors traveled through Canada.

Intelligence and technology experts said such transmitters, if they exist, could be used to surreptitiously track the movements of people carrying the spy coins.

The U.S. report doesn’t suggest who might be tracking American defense contractors or why. It also doesn’t describe how the Pentagon discovered the ruse, how the transmitters might function or even which Canadian currency contained them.

Further details were secret, according to the U.S. Defense Security Service, which issued the warning to the Pentagon’s classified contractors. The government insists the incidents happened, and the risk was genuine.

“What’s in the report is true,” said Martha Deutscher, a spokeswoman for the security service. “This is indeed a sanitized version, which leaves a lot of questions.”

U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com


Now this is something that could be ugly.......Read the part: Canada must be pretty relaxed to let it happen.

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Hey, all it takes is one stop at a 7-11 or a McDonald's, and the game is up...

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I think I'll pass.

At least the 7-11 has decent coffee and tuna salad subs....

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In all seriousness, this is pretty silly.

In Canada, they use coins for one and two dollars. Think about how quickly currency can change hands. I travel to Canada a lot, and can tell you that if those coins have transmitters in them, then someone's going to be tracking down a Tim Horton's coffee shop in pretty short order.

If they're putting transmitters in quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, well, those just end up sitting on the desk in my hotel room for the duration of my stay. The only thing someone's going to be able to do is track me back to San Diego, and then they'll be able to track the jar that sits on mt dresser, provided I don't try to spend as much of that money as I can before leaving the Toronto airport...

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Wow. I thought this thread was a joke until I clicked into it.

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It is a joke! The story was retracted....canoe -- CNEWS: - Retraction after Cdn coin rumour

Don't worry, Canadians are used to this kind of crap eminating from the woefully uninformed US media and government. I think we should put up a wall - wait a minute, isn't that what the US has already proposed???!!!


...and ProUSA...wasn't your country pretty relaxed about letting in the 9/11 terrorists? Your government granted them student visas after all. That's no joke at all. They certainly didn't enter from Canada, another story full of crap but unfortunately widely believed to this day in the US.

HAHA!!!! funny one.

well, if it wasnt a joke, ide say America has done such things in the past. its secretive, however, so you would not know it was done.
Ide also say Canada poses no threat.

Thanks. We're supposed to be friends after all.

It isn't a joke; the article says that the defense agency is sticking to the story. Perhaps to save face, perhaps in truth - we don't know.

It is a curious story, though. The coins were planted on the contractors, possibly by any espionage agency, so it may be that the individuals did not even know they had the change for quite a while. Perhaps it was just an experimental operation, if it indeed happened; that they were allegedly placed upon defense contractors though suggests otherwise.

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I always wondered how I ended up with them Canadian quarters when I dig in my pockets at the coke machine. Must have been planted there by a spy.

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Besides these things would be better used as dead drops then tracking devices or bugs.

[quote]Yes but if you decided to do it it would save us money and we could finish the one on our southern border. Great idea put a a wall to keep out the media.

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I think the Canadians gave the game away when they called their coin the Loony

They're taking the piss out of ya

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i want a canadian spy coin. how do i get one? thanks.