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The gist of this account about maps (and other items useful for escape efforts) being smuggled to Allied POWs during World War II by cleverly hiding them in Monopoly game sets is true, although some of the finer details in this particular account may be inaccurate. The general outline of the scheme to smuggle escape aids to POWs through specially manufactured Monopoly kits is recounted (among other places) in The Game Makers, a 2004 history of the Parker Brothers game company: Regardless of when it may have been officially declassified, information about the rigged Monopoly kits was openly acknowledged and discussed long before 2007. A 1985 Associated Press article, for example, reported that: Although the account claims an estimated one-third [of escaped POWs] were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets, both the Game Makers excerpt quoted above and Waddington's chairman said the number of POWs who were actually aided by the smuggled game kits is unknown: A former archivist with John Waddington also pointed out some discrepancies in the account in response to a 2007 London Times recounting of it:
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