The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spies (BONN07)

Product Information

a b c Norton-Taylor, Richard (25 June 2010). "Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 January 2014. It’s worth mentioning the importance of the UKUSA Agreement and the subsequent Five Eyes for the Special Relationship. It helped to forge the basis for a stronger co-operation between the UK and the United States in the Cold War period fostering mutual trust and deepening the links between the two countries. In other words, the Agreement consolidated the Special Relationship between Britain and the United States. Risen, James (16 April 2000). "Secrets Of History: The C.I.A. in Iran—A special report. How a Plot Convulsed Iran in '53 (and in '79)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013 . Retrieved 22 August 2013.

Jauvert, Vincent (1 July 2015). "EXCLUSIF. Comment la France écoute (aussi) le monde". L'Obs. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015 . Retrieved 10 July 2015. Beaumont, Peter (22 June 2013). "NSA leaks: US and Britain team up on mass surveillance". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 31 December 2013 . Retrieved 14 February 2014. BOOK REVIEW: The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network PKI Interoperability with FVEY Partner Nations on the NIPRNet". United States Department of the Navy. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014 . Retrieved 18 January 2014.

Search

Few documents are accessible to the public, but with the ones that have been officially realised it is possible to know the primary extent of the Agreement. The mistrust that has dogged the alliance from the start still exists today. Seventeen British nationals and citizens were held at Guantánamo but it was two years before the US agreed to release just five of them. Kerbaj reveals that Peter Clarke, former head of Scotland Yard’s counter-terrorism command, was urged by the US to imprison them on their return, something Clarke immediately dismissed. “None of the material they provided us with would have been admissible in court,” Clarke told Kerbaj.

Q&A: What you need to know about Echelon". BBC News. 29 May 2001. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013 . Retrieved 28 January 2014. The Five Eyes was formally founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, through the multilateral agreement for co-operation in signals intelligence (SIGINT), known as the UKUSA Agreement, on 5 March 1946. China accuses New Zealand and Five Eyes of interference over criticism of Hong Kong legislative elections". Radio New Zealand. 22 December 2021. Archived from the original on 22 December 2021 . Retrieved 22 December 2021. With the vast amount of information that's exposed online there is a greater need for more protection," Vaile says. The Reviewer — Douglas H. Wise served as Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from August 2014 until August 2016. Following 20 years of active duty in the Army where he served as an infantry and special operations officer, he spent the remainder of his career at CIA.Philip Dorling (8 July 2013). "Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 10 August 2013 . Retrieved 8 July 2013.

Deery, Phillip (8 November 2022). "Eyes spy • Phillip Deery". Inside Story. Carlton, Victoria. ISSN 1837-0497 . Retrieved 7 January 2023. Therefore, the Five Eyes is an enormous asset to keep the citizens of the ‘English-Speaking World’ safer and is the result of decades of relationship cemented on trust and confidence amongst its members.DeYoung, Karen; Walter Pincus (27 June 2007). "CIA Releases Files On Past Misdeeds". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 21 January 2014 . Retrieved 2 February 2014. A one-paragraph memo recounts planning for a "project involving the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then premier of the Republic of Congo. The invasion turned Iraq into a theme park for jihadist extremists. More than two decades on, the fires that were lit still burn. One part of this story is the saga of the so-called jihadi brides who were radicalised in Britain and travelled to Syria to offer themselves as wives to the killers of Islamic State (IS). Kerbaj reveals some of the secrets surrounding the journey taken from the UK, via Turkey, by three London schoolgirls: Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana. Wedeman, Ben (3 September 2011). "Documents shed light on CIA, Gadhafi spy ties". CNN. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012 . Retrieved 3 September 2011.

Echelon and the European Parliament". European Parliament. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013 . Retrieved 27 January 2014. United States: So far, no court case has been brought against any US intelligence community member claiming that they went around US domestic law to have foreign countries spy on US citizens and give that intelligence to the US.The book concludes with hope. It is confident that new challenges (eg pandemics, climate change etc) can be incorporated and that the strength of partnership will continue to offer an edge over adversaries grey behaviour (eg using criminal gangs). I hope that the author is correct. But I do worry that politicians might get in the way. But that probably an age old problem for intelligence agencies. In the end, The Five Eyes is about the remarkable women and men, doing remarkable things out of a commitment to a principle of the common good.