The five eyes: A shady spy club
“If the population of the English-speaking Commonwealth be added to that of the United States, with all that such cooperation implies in the air, on the sea, all over the globe, and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be no quivering, precarious balance of power to offer its temptation to ambition or adventure. On the contrary there will be an overwhelming assurance of security.” This is an excerpt from an extremely famous speech given in 1946 by Britain’s former Prime Minister Winston Churchill called Iron curtain. This speech marks the start of the Cold War.
During this time, an informal agreement was made. In 1943, this agreement started being reffered to as the BRUSA agreement, which later evolved into the UK and USA alliance (UKUSA) in 1946, exactly the day Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech. Canada joined the alliance in 1948, followed by Australia and New Zealand in 1956. The UKUSA agreement was first disclosed to the public in 2010, almost 65 years after it was signed, and no nation had officially recognized it until 1999.
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