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I heard an advertisement on a podcast I listen to from the international spy museum - 'Spycast' on iTunes if you're interested.
Apparently this company puts together a murder mystery and sends out clues to 'members' - like a 'box of the month' club type thing. The participant then works the clues to try and solve the mystery - by themselves or as part of an online forum, I think sponsored by the company but there could be independent forums working it.
I haven't bought it but it seems like a really cool idea. It also got me thinking I wonder if that type of format and delivery could work for intelligence training. If an organization or service school started a project like that it could serve as an awesome training tool - across joint service and interagency - on analytic techniques, OSINT, critical thinking, problem solving - maybe even language skills - all in an unclassified environment and in a way that might pique the interest of folks. Might even be a way to get non-intelligence MOS' interested and exposed to intelligence analytic and production techniques.
I'm sure the commercial application is patented but the idea in general can't be patented I would think. Just sounds really cool and I wondered what others might think.
I heard an advertisement on a podcast I listen to from the international spy museum - 'Spycast' on iTunes if you're interested.
Apparently this company puts together a murder mystery and sends out clues to 'members' - like a 'box of the month' club type thing. The participant then works the clues to try and solve the mystery - by themselves or as part of an online forum, I think sponsored by the company but there could be independent forums working it.
I haven't bought it but it seems like a really cool idea. It also got me thinking I wonder if that type of format and delivery could work for intelligence training. If an organization or service school started a project like that it could serve as an awesome training tool - across joint service and interagency - on analytic techniques, OSINT, critical thinking, problem solving - maybe even language skills - all in an unclassified environment and in a way that might pique the interest of folks. Might even be a way to get non-intelligence MOS' interested and exposed to intelligence analytic and production techniques.
I'm sure the commercial application is patented but the idea in general can't be patented I would think. Just sounds really cool and I wondered what others might think.
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