Bruh, your link's busted, just loads to a blank page. Y'all really doing quality checks, cuz this ain't a great start... I won't hold it against the game though, hope it's not indicative of the alpha. Fix it and maybe we'll give this 'socks blowing' experience a shot.
Look closer at the government projects during the early 80s. MKUltra was still fresh and who says they weren't trying to expand into other spheres? Video games were new, nobody knew the potential. And Portland might have been the perfect test site, off-the-radar and all. I bet there are declassified …