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Play Splinter Cell? Become A Spy For Real!

Guugley | October 18, 2007 | Press Release | Company 
Starting November, adverts will be placed in games such as 'Tom Clancey's Splinter Cell Double Agent' to inspire true gamers a taste of becoming a real spy.
From next month, UK intelligence agencies are placing ads in a series of espionage adventures--including Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent--in the hope of attracting new recruits, reports The Times (British Newspaper).

Government Communications Headquarters, which is responsible for surveillance intelligence work, is hoping that virtual spying might give gamers a taste for the real thing.

A spokesperson for GCHQ said, "We find increasingly we have to use less conventional means of attracting people...to go beyond glossy brochures and milk-round stalls."

GCHQ is not the only intelligence agency to resort to unconventional means to nab recruits. Recently MI5 has been advertising in places such as The Guardian newspaper, Cosmopolitan women's magazine, and the sides of London buses. However, this is the first time an intelligence agency is known to have used video games as a recruiting ground.

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    Kazooieman | October 19, 2007
    Lol... everybody knows that when you get killed in games you can sorta Respawn from somewhere but in Real Life it's REAL danger and with every action you make you could be killed...

    I say Good Luck to them if they find anyone!

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