Five Eyes

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Five Eyes

  1. An alliance of the intelligence agencies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
    • 2008, James Bamford, The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Anchor →ISBN
      In fact, in 2003, during the United Nations Security Council debate over whether to invade Iraq, the NSA asked all Five Eyes countries to target the communications between diplomats on the Council.
    • 2014, Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, Metropolitan Books →ISBN
      Broadly speaking, the NSA has three different categories of foreign relationships. The first is with the Five Eyes group: the US spies with these countries, but rarely on them, unless requested to by those countries' own officials.