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I've been banging on this drum here and elsewhere since the first game came out. There's definitely some people on the Hitman writing team with at least a good understanding of parapolitical history and likely actual leftist politics.
There's plenty of main characters and mission plots that relate to real events like the one you mentioned. Dalias Margolis is pretty much straight up Ghislaine Maxwell - they just made her father and actual Israeli general instead of a newspaper owning Mossad spy. Dawood Rangan is almost certainly supposed to be Dawood Ibrahim with his links to terrorism, massive public ego, history of cricket fixing and lower level Mumbai gangster history. Jordan Cross is pretty clearly Jared Leto in looks, personality, and weird nepo-baby intelligence connections through his father. And so on...
By the time you get into the non-target characters and all the little schemes, controversies, and historical backgrounds of characters that NPCs in the crowds talk about the knowledge and references run really deep.
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