This is not a game….
https://sputniknews.com/us/201803291063039452-cia-el-chapo-board-game/In response to a FOIA request the CIA recently released 2 of the board games they developed for training intelligence analysts, including ‘Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo’ based on the manhunt for the Mexican drug lord. While the CIA claims these are purely training aides, their development is the latest attempt to make incursions into nerd culture.
The CIA premiered their games last year at SXSW, where four Agency officers took part in a panel discussionto explain how and why they had developed their own in-house versions of Dungeons and Dragons. One called Collection Deck is a collectible card game focused on intelligence gathering. Another titled simply Collection sees a team of players pitched against three simultaneous global crises which they have to try to resolve or mitigate.
While a handful of SXSW attendees were allowed to play some of the games last year, they only recently became publicly available after MuckRock members Mitchell Kotler and Douglas Palmerobtained some of them via FOIA requests.
El Chapo: The Board Game
For Kingpin: The Hunt for El Chapo the CIA released over 100 pages of playing cards, diagrams of how to lay out a room for a game, gametest notes and instruction manuals on how to play. The complex game pits two teams against each other as one tries to find El Chapo and the other tries to keep him hidden while building up his narcotics empire.
https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/cias-directorate-of-analysis-analyst-training-game-kingpin-the-hunt-for-el-chapo-38475/#file-181668