Earlier this year, there were reports that U.S. Department of Defense contractors had been bugged with suspicious looking Canadian coins. Now we find out what the real culprit was.
The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors travelling 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,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.