The Five Eyes

Overview
The Five Eyes \ The 5 Eyes (FVEY), is a signals intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States and are bound together by the multilateral UKUSA Security Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in intelligence.

Offical members

 * 1) Australia.
 * 2) Canad.
 * 3) New Zealand.
 * 4) United Kingdom.
 * 5) United States.

Close allies

 * 1) Germany.
 * 2) Norway.
 * 3) Denmark.

1943 founding nations

 * UK.
 * 1) USA.

1948 expansion treaty

 * 1) Canada.

1952 expansion treaty

 * 1) Norway.

1956 expansion treaty

 * 1) Denmark.

1955 expansion treaty

 * 1) West Germany.

1956 expansion treaty

 * 1) Australia
 * 2) New Zealand

The "Five Eyes" community
These allied countries include NATO members, other European democracies such as Sweden, and allies in the Pacific, in particular Singapore and South Korea.

According to Edward Snowden: Israel.

The Circle of Bilateral Domestic Intelligence Surveillance Trust

 * 1) Britain,
 * 2) Canada,
 * 3) Italy,
 * 4) Spain,
 * 5) Japan,
 * 6) South Korea,
 * 7) Australia
 * 8) New Zealand

The second tier of Western surveillance expertise

 * 1) Israel,
 * 2) Sweden,
 * 3) Germany,
 * 4) Finland,
 * 5) Norway,
 * 6) Italy
 * 7) France.

The "Nine Eyes"

 * 1) Denmark,
 * 2) France,
 * 3) The Netherlands,
 * 4) Norway.

The "Fourteen Eyes"\SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR)

 * 1) Germany\ West Germany,
 * 2) Belgium,
 * 3) Italy,
 * 4) Spain,
 * 5) Sweden.

Rumored new recruits
On-line rumors and news-feeds held that 3 new nations were to be recruited as yet another layer in 2012, but nothing has happened so far.

These nations were:
 * 1) Colombia,
 * 2) Egypt,
 * 3) Slovenia.

States can't spy heavily on there own people
Britain's GCHQ intelligence agency can spy on anyone but British nationals, the NSA can conduct surveillance on anyone but Americans, and Germany's BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) foreign intelligence agency can spy on anyone but Germans. This is according to Edward Snowden in 2013.

History
The network was expanded in the 1960s into the Echelon collection and analysis network.

Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD were unusually active in 2013..

1970s Exposé
The 1973 Murphy raids on the headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) revealed the existence of the UKUSA Agreement, which Prime Minister Gough Whitlam thought was no longer infore and that discovered that Pine Gap secret surveillance station, near to Alice Springs, Australia, was run by operated by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) without Aussie government concent.

The existence of several intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes was not revealed until the following years:

In 1999, the Australian government acknowledged that it "does co-operate with counterpart signals intelligence organisations overseas under the UKUSA relationship.".
 * 1) 1970s: In Canada, an investigative television report revealed the existence of the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC).
 * 2) 1975: In the United States, the Church Committee of the Senate revealed the existence of the National Security Agency (NSA).
 * 3) 1976: In Britain, an investigative article in Time Out magazine revealed the existence of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
 * 4) 1977: In Australia, the Hope Commission revealed the existence of Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD).
 * 5) 1980: In New Zealand, the existence of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) was officially disclosed on a "limited basis".

STONEGHOST intelligence network
Much of the sharing of information is performed via the ultra-sensitive STONEGHOST or "Stone Ghost" network. It contains:
 * 1) United States,
 * 2) United Kingdom,
 * 3) Canada,
 * 4) Australia,
 * 5) New Zealand (?).

The ECHELON surveillance network


ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the US with the aid of other four signatory nations to the UKUSA Security Agreement—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.

The ECHELON program was created in the late 1960s to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War, and was formally established in 1971.

By the end of the 20th century, the system referred to as "ECHELON" had allegedly evolved beyond its military and diplomatic origins, to also become "…a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications."

ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with,
 * 1) the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England
 * 2) the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada
 * 3) the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD)
 * 4) the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand

It has 2 co-operating departments-
 * 1) TRANSIENT: for intercepting Soviet satellite transmissions, and
 * 2) ECHELON: for intercepting Intelsat satellite transmissions.

Controversies
One of the radomes at GCSB Waihopai collapsed after the 2008 Ploughshares attack.

In 2013, Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley strongly rebuked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for outsourcing its surveillance of Canadians to overseas partner agencies.

MI5 asked the NSA to mass tap UK phone calls in 2013.

2013 NSA lead American spying scandal, et al was a major spy scandal that shook most of the world's nations to the core.

Spain had on the October 31, 2013 revealed that Portugal is just below Britain, Canada, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand in Washington’s circle of trust focused on the sharing of citizens’ data on a bilateral level. It covered 60,000,000 Spanish phone calls.

Famous Victims

 * 1) Charlie Chaplin
 * 2) Strom Thurmond
 * 3) Nelson Mandela
 * 4) Jane Fonda
 * 5) Ali Khamenei
 * 6) John Lennon
 * 7) Ehud Olmert
 * 8) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
 * 9) Angela Merkel
 * 10) Diana, Princess of Wales
 * 11) Kim Dotcom

Also see

 * 1) "Frenchelon"
 * 2) GCSB Waihopai
 * 3) Misawa Air Base
 * 4) RAF Menwith Hill
 * 5) UKUSA Security Agreement
 * 6) Pine Gap secret surveillance station
 * 7) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
 * 8) Global cyber-warfare incident records index