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 Canadian Coins Signal Mysterious Espionage PlotPosted on Jan 11, 2007
The Defense Department says it has learned of a plot to spy on U.S. contractors with classified security clearances traveling through Canada. Though it released few other details, the U.S. Defense Security Service says it found tiny transmitters hidden in Canadian coins.
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By Spinoza, January 12, 2007 at 2:51 pm #
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My first response is to laugh, he he he he he ha ha ha ha ha haw.
Report thisBy John Hanks, January 12, 2007 at 11:45 am #
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I didn’t know that Republicans dealt with small change and coins. If I see one of them talking to a coin in a supermarket, I’ll turn them in. Usually they don’t steal without a licence.
Report thisBy Quy Tran, January 12, 2007 at 11:21 am #
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Don’t trust what did the Defense Department say but just keep watching what did this Department do from the past until today !
Report thisBy C Quil, January 12, 2007 at 9:44 am #
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A correspondent in Toronto’s Globe and Mail said in a letter to the editor today:
“Your article on the Pentagon’s suspicion that transmitters had been embedded in Canadian coins given to U.S. defence contractors notes that it was based on ‘partial intelligence’. Is that anything like stupidity?”
Report thisBy johnnyfarout, January 12, 2007 at 8:19 am #
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What this latest non-secret reminds me of is, “Double Secret Probation”. Can anyone seriously believe this? It’s so, well,…”cold war”. Is this Catch22 all over again, or what? I read somewhere else on the web that the problem with these “spy coins” is, if you didn’t know you had one in your pocket, you might put it in a vending machine, or pay phone or something, and foil the spy ring’s master plan! This sounds like another job well done in the ”retarded underworld”. I think it’s the contractors themselves who made these coins and want to put them in the vending machines, or whatever, for god knows what reasons, and are using Canadian coins because “no one would suspect the good ol’ nice ol’ Canadians”. Oh, and I forgot, no “contractor” has ever, ever told a lie…and certainly not just to protect their asses and keep the money rolling in! Oh, especially not government contractors…or, god forbid, no-bid mercenaries!
Report thisBy Ranger Tommy, January 12, 2007 at 6:50 am #
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That’s just loonie.
Report thisBy robert a. davies, January 11, 2007 at 10:31 pm #
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If I were Canadian I’d be wary of any citizens of U.S.A. The U.S.A has a long record of meddling in other countries, say nothing of controlling them.
Report thisI’m sorry to say this.
By Bukko in Australia, January 11, 2007 at 7:56 pm #
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Further proof that I’m not barking mad! Those dastardly Canuckistanis implanted a transmitter in my brain, right beside the one the CIA put there. My tinfoil hat won’t work on the Canoodian one to stop the transmissions that tell me to talk about boring things—I have to wear a beaver pelt instead. The Canadian menace must be stopped!
Seriously, Andy Borowitz wrote this story, not the LA Times, right?
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