UKUSA Agreement

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The UKUSA Agreement is a post-World War II multilateral intelligence-sharing pact, originally between the US and UK, that underpins the global signals intelligence alliance now known as the Five Eyes.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intelligence-sharing pact
multilateral treaty
signals intelligence agreement
alsoKnownAs UKUSA Agreement
surface form: UKUSA Treaty

UKUSA Agreement
surface form: United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement
classificationStatus highly classified
countrySignatory Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
declassificationStatus partially declassified
expandedToInclude Australia
Canada
New Zealand
field foreign intelligence
military intelligence
national security
signals intelligence
formsBasisOf Five Eyes alliance
surface form: Five Eyes
geopoliticalBloc Anglosphere
hasMemberAlliance Five Eyes alliance
surface form: Five Eyes
influenceOn ECHELON
global surveillance system
language English
legalNature executive agreement
networkName Five Eyes alliance
surface form: Five Eyes
originalParties United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
purpose cooperation in signals intelligence collection
division of SIGINT collection responsibilities
intelligence sharing
standardization of SIGINT procedures
regionCovered global
relatedOrganization Australian Signals Directorate
Canada Communications Security Establishment
surface form: Communications Security Establishment

Government Communications Headquarters
Government Communications Security Bureau
National Security Agency
scope communications intelligence
electronic surveillance cooperation
signals intelligence
timePeriod post-World War II era
typeOfCooperation joint analysis of intelligence
sharing of intercepted communications
technical collaboration on SIGINT systems
underpins Five Eyes alliance
surface form: Five Eyes intelligence-sharing framework

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

UKUSA Agreement alsoKnownAs UKUSA Agreement
this entity surface form: UKUSA Treaty
UKUSA Agreement alsoKnownAs UKUSA Agreement
this entity surface form: United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement
Five Eyes alliance basedOnAgreement UKUSA Agreement
subject surface form: Five Eyes
FVEY hasOrigin UKUSA Agreement
BRUSA Agreement influenceOn UKUSA Agreement
BRUSA Agreement relatedTo UKUSA Agreement
this entity surface form: UKUSA Agreement of 1946
FVEY relatedTo UKUSA Agreement