21 May
Posted by Thomas Deeny as Card Games, Other
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a partial list of documents found in the Abbottabad compound where Osama Bin Ladin was discovered in 2011. Down at the bottom of the list of “English Language Books” is a curious note: a printout of an article from ICv2.com titled “Website Claims Steve Jackson Game Foretold 9/11”. The article at ICv2 summarizes another website’s conspiracy-laden article about how Steve Jackson was able to foretell “the actual plan of the Illuminati to propel the world into the New World Order….[He] knew the Plan so exactly he got a surprise visit from the Secret Service, who tried their best to shut him down and prevent him from publishing his game,” reads the article published in 2004.
ICv2’s reaction: “What?”