abstract:Cross Impact Analysis is a methodology developed by Theodore Gordon and Olaf Helmer in 1966 to help determine how relationships between events would impact resulting events and reduce uncertainty in the future.Gordon, Theodore Jay, Cross Impact Method, United Nations University Millennium Project, 1994, p 1 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) became interested in the methodology in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an analytic technique for predicting how different factors and variables would impact future decisions.