If you pay attention to international news, you must have heard of the "Five Eyes Alliance", from the Hong Kong amendment storm to the politicization of the traceability of the new crown epidemic, this name is a bit strange-sounding organization, has been playing a disgraceful role for many years, so what kind of organization is this so-called "Five Eyes Alliance"? How did it penetrate all over the world step by step?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >What is the Five Eyes Alliance? </h1>
The so-called "Five Eyes Alliance" is actually a multinational cooperative intelligence organization, the five eyes represent five countries, including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the five countries tied together referred to as the Five Eyes Alliance, the intelligence within the alliance is to implement resource sharing, and these five countries, they promise not to spy on each other.
The five brothers are not completely reciprocal, but a large glasses with four small eyes mixed, the biggest eye is definitely the United States, has an absolute right to speak, usually, the intelligence used to share is also hierarchical, each piece of intelligence will indicate the reading permission of each country, for example, a piece of intelligence that only Canadians can read, will be stamped with top secrets, only the red stamp of the Canadian eye, and the intelligence that can be read by five countries will be marked with secrets, the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand eyes can be, The eye here is synonymous with the state, which is much more convenient than the "UNITED STATES, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand Intelligence Alliance".
The biggest eye among the five eyes is the United States, which has a global monitoring network called echelon, which can intercept various media communication information, including mobile phones, telephones, faxes, satellites, internet and other echelon systems.
In addition, according to Snowden, the NSA also has a surveillance system called XKeyscore, which can access all the information left by anyone on the Internet.
2008 NSA internal demo version of XKeyscore
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > past and present lives of the Five Eyes Alliance</h1>
The origin of the Five Eyes Alliance, can be traced back to the Second World War, after the Pearl Harbor incident, the Americans realized the importance of intelligence cooperation, they signed a secret intelligence agreement with the British, Britain and the United States through intelligence sharing to carry out radio surveillance of the Axis powers, the specific division of labor is the United States is responsible for monitoring Japan, the United Kingdom is responsible for monitoring Germany and Italy, this is the prototype of the Five Eyes Alliance.
In 1943, the U.S. Military Intelligence Agency went to the United Kingdom to learn the German supercode cracking technology, and in the future Pacific Theater, the Japanese Navy's communication code was in the hands of the U.S. Navy, so that the U.S. Navy defeated the Japanese Navy in the Battle of Midway.
In the years after the end of World War II, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada joined one after another, and the Five Eyes Alliance was officially established.
During the Cold War, the focus of the Five Eyes Surveillance also shifted from the Axis powers of the year to the Soviet Union and its allies, and the scope of surveillance was also redivided, with the United States mainly responsible for the Caribbean, China, Russia, the Middle East and Africa; the United Kingdom responsible for Europe and Western Russia; Australia responsible for East and South Asia; New Zealand responsible for the South Pacific and Southeast Asia; and Canada taking into account Latin America, the North Atlantic and the North Pacific.
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, announcing the end of the Cold War, many people thought that the Five Eyes Alliance would be dissolved, but in fact, the Snowden "Prism Gate" incident that shocked the world in 2013 told us that the Five Eyes Alliance not only did not disband, but with the help of high-tech means, grew more eyes.
After 9/11, the NSA gained the right to monitor everything, including civilian communications and networks.
NSA Headquarters, Meadeborg
Today, on the basis of the Five Eyes Alliance, there are two more expanded versions. For example, with the Nine Eyes Alliance in Denmark, France, the Netherlands and Norway, plus the Fourteen Eyes Alliance in Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy, and Sweden, and according to Snowden's routine, more and more Internet companies have begun to cooperate with national surveillance agencies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other super giants.
In recent years, Japan, South Korea and other countries have also expressed their desire to join the intelligence alliance led by the United States, but they have not succeeded, although more and more countries have joined, but the reading rights and trust level of each country are very different, and its core is still the original five eyes of the "United States, Britain, Canada and Australia and New Zealand". In the eyes of Americans, in addition to the first five eyes are "their own people", other Long-term cooperation in European countries are still "outsiders", and even German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone has been monitored for a decade.
The NSA monitors the Merkel document, code-named "GE Merkel Chancellor"
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > and the Five Eyes Why do these five countries happen to be? </h1>
You may have to ask, the Five Eyes, why is it exactly these five countries, you may not know, the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, these five, that are All Anglo-Roy. The descendants of the Saxon people were a family 500 years ago, so the brothers are now self-reliant, but in general, they are still related to each other, and besides, this is also the need for the same values and the binding of interests.
For a long time, the Five Eyes alliance has grown into a closed small group, erecting various trade barriers around member states, from military to civilian, preventing other countries from participating in fair competition.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" what did the Five Eyes Alliance do >? </h1>
The intelligence surveillance of the Five Eyes Alliance is not limited to government agencies, even many large enterprises are difficult to escape the clutches, involving the field of commercial arms sales incidents are also happening continuously, the most famous is the Israeli "Elta" airborne early warning system was unjustifiably discharged from competition case, in the tender at that time, the Five Eyes Alliance unanimously decided that the United Kingdom should "buy" the early warning aircraft of the American Boeing Company without competition.
In 2009, the United States invaded the Chinese Huawei headquarters network, a large number of employees' emails were stolen, including President Ren Zhengfei, and the source code of some products was also controlled by the United States, which was only part of the famous "Shoot Down Giant" plan.
Huawei's 5G technology is ahead of the world, the Five Eyes Alliance on the grounds of endangering national security, prohibiting Huawei from participating in the construction of 5G networks in member countries, the United States not only banned Huawei itself, but also used the intelligence capabilities of the Five Eyes Alliance as a threat to prohibit other countries from cooperating with Huawei.