We would have thought that the effort to link Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda was a relic of the administration of George W. Bush, the centerpiece of which was the fictitious meeting in Prague between an Iraqi intelligence officer and Mohammed al-Atta, the team leader of the 9/11 attackers.
These fictitious robots are products of early artificial intelligence (AI) technology that use automated reasoning based on formal representations similar to the brick example.
And why didn't senior British spies such as Dearlove resign when it became clear in 2003 that the intelligence they had supplied government was fictitious?
It was during the early 1960s, at the height of the cold war, that the US army, busily devising ever more realistic training scenarios, decided to create a fictitious nation to serve as an opponent during intelligence exercises.
But it was an "intelligence failure," not his relentless invocation of patently fictitious "mushroom clouds," that sped us into Iraq.
In a written statement to VICE, Ryan Foreman of CSEC's media relations team described the hockey surveillance example as "obviously fictitious content" while adding that "CSE is prohibited by law from directing its foreign intelligence or cyber defence activities at Canadians anywhere in the world or at anyone in Canada".].
Gen. Kevin Bergner, a United States military spokesman, reiterated the American belief that Mr. Baghdadi did not exist, calling him a "fictitious character" invented to put "an Iraqi face" on Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, a homegrown group that American intelligence agencies believe is led by foreigners.
After he assured Mr. Sloman that the new book would not be set at Rummidge but at the equally fictitious University of Gloucester, this professor agreed to cooperate as his "chief mole in the world of artificial intelligence," Mr. Lodge said.
There, for about nine months, the students inhabit an increasingly complex role-playing scenario, in which the Farm is a fictitious unfriendly country and the instructors serve as teachers, tacticians, sources, border guards, and officers of a hostile intelligence agency.
Carpenter stocked the honeypots with intelligence documents they were all declassified, but that wouldn't immediately be clear to a reader and created fictitious search histories for his made-up contractor.
