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In an ingeniously deceitful manner, the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to operate a Star Wars fan page.
The seemingly harmless website 'starwarsweb.net', popular in 2010, was part of a network of websites run by the CIA at the time to covertly communicate with its global network of spies until Iranian intelligence caught their ruse.
Security researcher Ciro Santilli recently revealed this information.
"It gives a broader understanding of the CIA's interests at the time, including more specific democracies which may have been targeted, which were not previously mentioned, and also a statistical understanding of how much importance they were giving to different zones at the time, and unsurprisingly, the Middle East comes on top," said Santilli.
The website cleverly disguised its embedded communication methods and used them to communicate with many informants around the world. Clicking on the website's link today leads directly to the CIA's main webpage.
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