CIA WANTS VIDEO GAME FOR ANALYSTS

“The CIA is set to spend sev­eral mil­lion dol­lars to develop a video game aimed at help­ing its ana­lysts think like ter­ror­ists,” reports the Washington Times.
“The agency’s Counter Terrorist Center, or CTC, is work­ing with the Los Angeles-​​based Institute for Creative Technologies on a project designed to help its ana­lysts, ‘think out­side the box,’” a CIA spokesman tells the paper.
In the not-​​too-​​distant past, the Insitute has helped the Army build video games that sup­pos­edly help “develop lead­ers that can deal with com­plex prob­lems, ones that involve emo­tional issues, polit­i­cal issues and social issues.“
“Among those lead­er­ship tasks: get­ting a team to clear a house, pro­tect aid work­ers, or hold off a mob from a U.S. embassy.“
Guess they didn’t get that one ready in time for Iraq.
Check this Wired News story from 2001 for more.

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