ну собственно говоря и многие СМИ подхватили по типу

В Минобороны назвали игру Metal Gear разработкой спецслужб США

https://lenta.ru/news/2019/06/20/games/

А теперь собственно разоблачение погнало ( линуи  пруфы дальше в посте)

Вообщем операция "Metal Gear" - это название продукта, о котором мы знаем из слитой в интернет в 2011 году переписки между двумя подрядчиками Пентагона - компаниями Booz Allen Hamilton и HBGarry. В письмах обсуждался выигранный тендер на разработку ПО для управления виртуальными аккаунтами в социальных сетях.

Mar 17, 2011, 02:52pm

Anonymous, The Military And Fake Virtual Armies

The practice was highlighted last night when the online hacking collective Anonymous released documents and e-mails highlighting the use of software to create multiple, fake online profiles, also known as "sock puppets" or "virtual armies" to sway public opinion. Anonymous, which has a small team of half a dozen supporters conducting their own investigation into the documents, claims the software has been used to track users on social networks like Facebook in foreign countries.

Anonymous' real beef is with another security firm, Booz Allen Hamilton, a publicly-traded company based in McLean, Virginia that brought in sales of $5.1 billion in fiscal 2010. It points to a series of contracts the Defence Departments lists with the firm announced last May, including one described as providing "combat-ready forces to conduct secure cyber operations in and through the electromagnetic spectrum" worth $24.3 million. The hackers believe this contract also pertains to using groups of fake online personas on the Internet.

Having dubbed their investigation Operation Metal Gear, the hackers said last night that this software was "nothing new for those of us familiar with the way the net works," but added the "idea behind Metal Gear seems to be 'weaponizing' sockpuppets, in order to influence the face of revolutions that are based within social networking sites." Their investigation continues

https://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2011/03/17/anonymous...

MARCH 24, 2011 03:15 PM PT

Anonymous Draws Congressional Attention; Battles Disgruntled Members

But both Anonymous and Johnson are worried what uses the software might be put to. Anonymous has launched what it calls Operation Metal Gear to investigate what the software does and why it's being developed. "We believe that Metal Gear [the Anonymous code name for the software] involves an army of fake cyber personalities immersed in social networking websites for the purposes of manipulating the mass population via influence, crawling information from major online communities (such as Facebook), and identifying anonymous personalities via correlating stored information from multiple sources to establish connections between separate online accounts, using this information to arrest dissidents and activists who work anonymously."

March 23, 2011

Report: Air Force to spy with fake Facebook accounts

The effort, dubbed Operation Metal Gear, would create what the Air Force has referred to as a "persona management system." It would create false user accounts with culturally and geographically consistent histories and supporting details, the magazine reported.

https://www.ajc.com/news/local/report-air-force-spy-with-fak...