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If the Canadian Government were to spy on another country, you’d be pretty sure that they would not advertise it for all to see. Or maybe they would, they are Canadian after all!

In what prompted the U.S. Defense Department to issue an espionage warning against it’s neighbors to the north, turned out to be only a coin emblazoned with a bright red poppy in it’s center.

The Royal Canadian Mint issued a coin to commemorate the lives of service men and women lost during armed conflicts with a “poppy coin.” This coin was a regular quarter, with a bright red poppy painted on it’s face. However, U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada became suspicious of the coins, that they filed confidential “espionage” accounts about them!

Some of the reports filed described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology.” The report went on to say, “It did not appear to be electronic (analog) in nature or have a power source,” wrote one U.S. contractor, who discovered the coin in the cup holder of a rental car. “Under high power microscope, it appeared to be complex consisting of several layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top.”

Nano-technology, consisting of layers of clear, but different material, with a wire like mesh suspended on top? Sounds like something from a James Bond Movie doesn’t it?
But no, it’s a Canadian quarter with a poppy on it!

If the Canadian Government were to spy on it’s Southern neighbors using a “nano-technology” coin, do you think they would make it stand out like a sore thumb by painting a bright red X on the device?

Now that the Secret Attack Cat is out of the bag, they might as well come clean about the coin too I guess!

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