The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site

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By msmashMay 26, 2025, 6:38 pm133 pts
alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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