Five Eyes alliance

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The Five Eyes alliance is an intelligence-sharing partnership among the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand that coordinates extensive signals intelligence and surveillance activities.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf intelligence alliance
international organization
signals intelligence alliance
alternativeName FVEY
Five Eyes alliance
Five Eyes alliance
surface form: UKUSA alliance
basedOnAgreement UKUSA Agreement
cooperatesIn intelligence dissemination
signals intelligence analysis
signals intelligence collection
cooperatesOn counterterrorism intelligence
cybersecurity intelligence
foreign intelligence
military intelligence support
cooperatesWith NATO members on intelligence matters
focusArea electronic surveillance
global communications monitoring
geopoliticalScope global
hasCharacteristic Anglophone countries
highly classified
long-term strategic partnership
hasFoundingMember Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
hasKeyAgency Australian Signals Directorate
Canada Communications Security Establishment
surface form: Communications Security Establishment

Government Communications Headquarters
Government Communications Security Bureau
National Security Agency
hasMember Australia
Canada
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States of America
surface form: United States
languageOfOperation English
legalBasis bilateral and multilateral intelligence agreements
memberCountryAgency Australian Signals Directorate
surface form: Australia Australian Signals Directorate

Canada Communications Security Establishment
Government Communications Security Bureau
surface form: New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau

Government Communications Headquarters
surface form: United Kingdom Government Communications Headquarters

National Security Agency
surface form: United States National Security Agency
notableProgramInvolvement global communications interception systems
originatedFrom World War II intelligence cooperation
primaryActivity communications surveillance
intelligence sharing
signals intelligence
subjectOf privacy and surveillance debates

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Japanese intelligence community cooperatesWith Five Eyes alliance
this entity surface form: Five Eyes countries