Canadian spy coins, transmitters
The U.S. Defense Security Service, in a warning issued to Pentagon’s contractors, has revealed a new espionage threat: Canadian coins with hidden radio frequency transmitters, which were found on at least three seperate occasions on contractors with high security clearances travelling through Canada between Octover 2005 and January 2006. The top suspects: China, Russia and France.
Experts said that such small transmitters probably have a range limited to a few feet, but could communicate with nearby sensors hidden, say, inside a doorway. Amusingly, the Associated Press image circulated with this story is not a Canadian coin, but a U.S. dollar, one of the hollow coins the CIA acknowledged using to hide messages and film. All this recalls the British spy ‘rock’ fiasco in Russia around this time last year. Nothing is what it seems.
Canadian spy coins planted on workers, DetNews.com
If you’re a spy, Canadian money talks, TheGlobeandMail.com
Russia: British used ‘rock’ to spy, CNN.com