Thursday, January 11, 2007

Spy-tracking Toonies?

Have you seen this?

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.


Full story here.

4 Comments:

Blogger Tom said...

Bizarre, to say the least.

In my best Kate Hepburn impression.

"Norman, Look at the loons"

8:36 AM, January 12, 2007  
Blogger West End Bob said...

Very clever, tom! The "dolls" must not have kicked in yet . . .

7:29 PM, January 12, 2007  
Blogger laura k said...

Hey, I just posted about this. Apparently the US has issued a retraction. Tres bizarre.

3:23 PM, January 19, 2007  
Blogger Unknown said...

very crazy but I guess it is expected... Nothing surprises me.

11:38 AM, January 22, 2007  

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