It's official, Canadian coins DON'T contain 007 type transmitters

[JohnyCanuck]

Rest easy American tourists, no need to throw away your leftover loonies in the Niagara river before crossing back over the border. You can safely keep them in your underwear drawer until your next cross border excursion.

Retraction after Cdn coin rumour
By JIM BRONSKILL


OTTAWA (CP) - It seems there's no danger of your spare change spying on you after all.

A U.S. government defence agency has suddenly retracted its claim that Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters were planted on at least three American contractors who visited Canada.

It's the latest twist in an intriguing cash caper.

Canadians began carefully scrutinizing their loonies following the Virginia-based Defense Security Service's claim that specially doctored coins were a new tool of the trade for shadowy figures out to steal sensitive U.S. military technology.

"On at least three separate occasions between October 2005 and January 2006, cleared defense contractors' employees traveling through Canada have discovered radio frequency transmitters embedded in Canadian coins placed on their persons," said the service's annual counterintelligence report for 2006.

The document did not indicate what sort of coins were involved, and a service spokeswoman said details of the incidents were classified.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/01/13/pf-3342525.html

[Taverner]

1. WTF??? This seems like the kind of rumor Bob Boudelang would start

[applegrove]

2. Was this really taken seriously? Was that a poppy there in that coin?

How we try and remind ourselves of the sacrifice of our soldiers.

[MADem]

3. Placed on their person, eh? Bend over, Pal, here it comes!!!!

Geez, what is this shit...GET SMART???

But the prospect of embedding a transmitter in a coin struck some as technologically far-fetched and rather dubious in that the holder might promptly spend the device, ending the surveillance operation.

Other cases outlined in the report included that of a female foreign national who seduced an American translator in order to obtain the password to his computer network.

"Upon discovery of this security breach, a computer audit revealed foreign intelligence service viruses throughout the system," the report said.

In another instance, a defence contractor's employee was caught taping classified briefings using a voice-recording pen.

[GreenZoneLT]

4. Nice try, moose lover.

If you think our Dear Leader is going to let so-called facts interrupt the planning process for the coming invasion of Canada (or as I like to call it, Canukistan), you're sadly mistaken, JohnyCanuck (if that IS your real name). Condi is preparing her U.N. speech right now, complete with satellite imagery from just this week in Bradenton, Fla.

Your reign of terror is coming to an end, you excessively polite, half-French, Bigfoot-harborers. Vancouver, Washington, is coming to take its name back.

[billybob537]

5. In my best BORIS BADENOUGH voice

"What about moose and SQUIRREL?"