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#FiveEyes

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Organizations (3)

  • Canadian Security Intelligence Service The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is Canada's domestic intelligence agency, established in 1984 after the RCMP Security Service was dissolved following revelations of illegal operations; it is a Five Eyes partner and maintained liaison relationships with the CIA and MI6 relevant to several vault subjects including the transborder aspects of pedophile network investigations.
  • Five Eyes Five Eyes is the signals intelligence alliance between the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand established under the UKUSA Agreement (1946); its collection infrastructure, including ECHELON, represents the most extensive global surveillance network ever assembled and is referenced throughout the vault's SIGINT and intelligence community subjects.
  • GCHQ GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) is the UK's signals intelligence agency, based in Cheltenham, whose partnership with the NSA under the UKUSA Agreement forms the core of the Five Eyes intelligence architecture; it is referenced throughout the vault's signals intelligence, Iran-Contra, and Cold War subjects.

Programs (2)

  • ECHELON ECHELON was the code name for the global signals intelligence collection and analysis network operated by the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand); its existence was publicly confirmed through European Parliament investigations in the late 1990s, revealing a mass surveillance architecture that intercepted civilian telephone, fax, and data communications worldwide.
  • UKUSA Agreement The UKUSA Agreement (1946) is the signals intelligence treaty between the United States, United Kingdom, and later Australia, Canada, and New Zealand that established the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance; it is the legal and institutional backbone of ECHELON and all subsequent mass surveillance architectures documented in this vault.

Places (1)

  • New Zealand Five Eyes member whose Waihopai station fed ECHELON, where French agents sank the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, where Peter Thiel received citizenship in 2011, and where the Christchurch mosque attacks took place in 2019.