[krogers58]

Presuming this story has a shred of truth to it.

It's just bizarre enough that it may be true. Read the article, it details how intelligence agencies monitor these war types of games for intelligence leaks. This would not be the first time that such info was leaked within a gaming community.

[pepsionice]

I retired after 20 in 1999...just as the gaming thing came along. Watching things develop over the next decade...I’d say around 10-percent of intel/comm community is into full-time gaming. One could make the case that they are obsessive/compulsive about gaming action.

[no-to-illegals]

The gamers know as much as the intelligence groups. Makes perfect sense

[skepsel]

That was the premise of the ‘70s Redford movie “Three Days of the Condor”; a small intel unit that researches potboiler novels looking for leaks of classified info.

Redford comes to work to find the unit has been eliminated by the mailman.

Not a bad flick, Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson and Max von Sydow among others.