FIVE EYES

FIVE EYES

BASIC CONCEPT :

The Five Eyes is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

HISTORY : 

▰ The genesis of the Five Eyes occurred during the Second World War, when secret collaboration between UK and US successfully decrypted Nazi and Japanese codes.

▰ Initial agreement was signed in April 1942 between USA and UK. Later expanded to include UK dominions Canada, Australia and New Zealand

▰ Each country shares the burden for surveillance, information collection and analysis of a different part of the globe.

AREA MONITERS BY COUNTRIES :

▰ Australia monitors South and East Asia.

▰ New Zealand covers the South Pacific and Southeast Asia.

▰ UK devotes attention to Europe and Western Russia.

▰ US monitors the Caribbean, China, Russia, the Middle East and Africa.

note: Not Officially mentioned anywhere. 

AGENCIES

AGENCIES :

AGENCIES involve in Five Eyes group :

USA :

ØNational Security Agency    

ØDefense Intelligence Agency

ØCentral Intelligence Agency

ØFederal Bureau of Investigation.

UK :

ØGovernment Communications Headquarters

ØThe Secret Intelligence Service

ØDefence Intelligence

ØThe Security Service

CANADA :

Ø Communications Security Establishment

ØChief of Defence Intelligence

ØCanadian Security Intelligence Service

Australia :

ØAustralian Signals Directorate

ØDefence Intelligence Organisation

ØAustralian Secret Intelligence Service

ØAustralian Federal Police

New Zealand :

ØGovernment Communications Security Bureau

ØDirectorate of Defence Intelligence and Security

ØNew Zealand Security Intelligence Service

NINE EYES & FOURTEEN EYES :

when other countries realized that we have also need like five eyes group then Nine Eyes and Fourteen Eyes came into existence.

                                                               

NINE EYES & FOURTEEN EYES

CONTROVERSIES :

▰ Five Eyes is not controlled by any government and, therefore, has the power to spy over citizens of the member states.

▰ Before 2003, very little about the five eyes alliance was known to the public. Things got clearer in 2013 when a former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, leaked some documents connected to the Five Eyes alliance.

▰ One Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, at one time, confessed that he was unaware of the existence or operations of this alliance.

RECENTLY IN NEWS :

▰ Five Eyes network contradicts theory Covid-19 leaked from Wuhan research lab.