I n what is perhaps the most bizarre Star Wars news story for a while, it has been revealed that fan sites for the franchise were cover-ups for CIA covert communication. In a world that is so ...

As it turned out, the Star Wars page was just one star in a galaxy of CIA-run covert communication sites. There were comedy pages, extreme sports sites, and even a Brazilian music fan page.

In essence, the CIA appears to have operated sites like starwarsweb.net (check out the Wayback Machine's snapshot from 2010) as shells that hid tools designed to enable covert communication.

CIA disguised espionage communications as Star ... What at first glance looks like a typical Star Wars fan website from the 2000s was actually access to a covert communication system of the US ...

Security researcher Ciro Santilli has reported that a Star Wars fan site created around 2010 was actually a tool used by the CIA to secretly contact informants from other countries. CIA 2010 ...

The new release includes hundreds of CIA records as well as White House and National Security Council documents relating to covert operations abroad, “particularly in Latin American nations such ...