an odd-looking canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind a u.s. defense department false espionage warning earlier this year about mysterious coin-like objects with radio frequency transmitters, the associated press has learned.US “army contractors”? Not so much.
the 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,” according to once-classified u.s. government reports and e-mails obtained by the ap.
Thirty million of the coins were minted to commemorate Canada's war dead.
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