What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

[poundwise]

US Warns About Spy Coins link

[gackle]

Re: What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

"It wouldn't seem to be the best place to put something like that; you'd want to put it in something that wouldn't be left behind or spent," said Jeff Richelson, a researcher and author of books about the CIA and its gadgets. "It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense."

Well, if one of those defense contractors is a member of this board then it's a great idea because the money is not likely to get spent!

[Broken Arrow]

Re: What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

Interesting!

I remember back in the Cold War, there were these trojan horse coins that were used by spies to smuggle microfilms, so I guess it's not surprising that they're still being used today for more of the same.

[JanH]

Re: What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

They would just end up tracking the piggy bank in this house.

[PRICEPLUS]

Re: What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

The Soviet agaent was named Abel and he used hollowed out nickels to pass microfilm. He was caught and eventually was exchanged for Gary Powers who was shot down over the Soviet Union.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

Re: What's in your pocket? Are you sure?

Did anyone further check out this story? The website it was on is not familiar to me.

When I was a kid my oldest brother had a hollow mock US coin that I believe he got from a fellow magician. I don't know what tricks he thought he could do with it, but it was kind of cool.

Any Canadian coins that belong to me --hollow or solid-- are just sitting forever in some drawer or junk box. It's really inconvenient to get coins exchanged here in the middle of the US. Any transmitter would just indicate the location of my desk drawer or the box in my kitchen that contains scotch tape, emergency candles, curtain hooks, old wine corks, shoestrings, picture hanging wire, and felt pads that go under the dining chairs. Ho-hum....