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Researchers Unveils CIA's Covert Star Wars Fan Site Used for Spy Communications

Researchers uncovered that around 2010 the CIA operated a Star Wars fan site to covertly communicate with overseas agents.
This covert communication emerged from an intelligence network using coded messages hidden in Star Wars discussions to relay classified information.
The site, part of hundreds in the network, featured fan debates on lightsabers and midi-chlorians as cover, but sloppy coding exposed agents abroad.
More than two dozen CIA informants in China were executed during 2011 and 2012 after Iranian authorities discovered these sites, triggering a major operational crisis.
This episode highlights both the risks of flawed spycraft and ongoing revelations about intelligence methods that remain active about 15 years later.

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The CIA Was Using a Star Wars Fan Site as a Cover to Chat with Its Spies.

A Star Wars fan site visibly served as a front for the CIA to communicate with its spies. The American agency reportedly developed numerous sites in the 2000s to exchange secretly with its spies.

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CIA chief faces stiff test in bid to revitalize human spying

CIA Director John Ratcliffe wants to rebuild the agency’s diminished ranks of spies and foreign agents. But have espionage’s golden days passed?

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CIA Bosses Ran Fake 'Star Wars' Fan Site to Communicate With Spies Around the World

CIA bosses have run fake 'Star Wars' fan sites, as well as a handful of others, to communicate with spies around the world.

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Apparently The CIA Once Ran A Fake Star Was Fan Site To Communicate With Spies Overseas

TechSpot- The internet has seen its fair share of weird, but a Star Wars fan site secretly run by the CIA to communicate with overseas spies might top the list. StarWarsWeb.net looked like any other 2...

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CIA Ran Fake Star Wars Fan Site

At one time, he communicated through this with some of his foreign spies.

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The CIA used a Star Wars fan site to secretly communicate with spies

This bizarre piece of intel comes courtesy of Ciro Santilli, an independent researcher with a knack for rooting around the dusty corners of the web, who spoke...

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