Canadian Poppy Quarter Caused 'Spy Coin' Warning

[Swede]

Is there any intelligence in the "intelligence" community?




An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defense Department's false espionage warning earlier this year, The Associated Press has learned.

The odd-looking — but 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.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270413,00.html

[Old and In the Way]

1. We are becoming the absolute laughing stock of the world.

We are lead by morons. You'd think that this might have been nipped in the bud by talking with someone in the Canadian government. I suppose we can't trust them, either.

[Drifter]

2. Don't laugh ...

I got one of these coins. It looks like some kind of error.
It looks like something fell off the coin leaving the internals exposed.
It does look like some kind of "microchip" thingy.

At least I held onto mine for numismatic value, and did not open an intelligence file on it.

My guess is that a simple google could have saved these folks some time and effort.

Cheers
Drifter