Five Eyes
The intelligence alliance of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Overview
The Five Eyes grew from the 1946 UKUSA agreement, in which the United States and Britain divided signals interception and agreed to share the raw take. Canada joined in 1948, and Australia and New Zealand by 1956. Members exchange unprocessed collections rather than finished reports and by convention refrain from spying on one another. The name stayed unknown to the public until 2013 disclosures made it a headline. It remains the deepest intelligence partnership in the world, binding agencies from Fort Meade to Canberra.
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