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Iran Calls Video Games Part Of CIA Plot - Ed Jewett - 26-01-2012 Iran Calls Video Games Part Of CIA PlotPosted by Good German on January 25, 2012Amir Mirzaei Hekmati
Robert Mackey writes for the New York Times:According to Iranian state television, a former United States marine who was convicted of spying on Iranand sentenced to death on Monday was also involved in a nefarious plot to brainwash the youth of the Middle East using an unlikely tool: video games. Read more here.
In a video report broadcast last month, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the former marine of Iranian descent who was arrested during a visit to Tehran in August, allegedly confessed to a career in American intelligence that included a stint at a video game company in New York that was "a cover for the C.I.A." According to an English translation of the report published by The Tehran Times, an Iranian state-run newspaper, about one-third of the way through the report, Mr. Hekmati said he had worked for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or Darpa, after he left the Marine Corps in 2005. Then, according to the newspaper's somewhat oddly worded translation, Mr. Hekmati said in Persian: After Darpa, I was recruited by Kuma Games Company, a computer games company which received money from C.I.A. to design and make special films and computer games to change the public opinion's mindset in the Middle East and distribute them among Middle East residents free of charge. The goal of Kuma Games was to convince the people of the world and Iraq that what the U.S. does in Iraq and other countries is good and acceptable. He reportedly added: "The head of Kuma called me and said, I have received your resume from Darpa, and we have a program in which you can help us.' " Kuma, Mr. Hekmati explained, "was also a cover for the C.I.A. and only the chief of company knows that you're working with the agency."*(After the verdict against Mr. Hekmati was reported on Monday, his family, along with the White House and the State Department, flatly denied that he was a spy.)… Iran Calls Video Games Part Of CIA Plot - Jan Klimkowski - 26-01-2012 Before it disappears (after all MSM will have to frame the Iranian claims as a "conspiracy theory"), check the 2006 admissions from KUMA as follows: Quote:Kuma officials describe themselves as a video game development studio that has done work for USA CASCOM-TD. That acronym refers to the Combined Arms Support Command Training Development. That squares with Kuma CEO Keith Halper's description to me (referring to author of article) in 2006 of Kuma having done work to help with the training of soldiers for the U.S. Army. Longer piece here. Quote:Supposed Video Game Developer Spy' Had Worked on Language-Learning Game for Department of Defense |