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Five Eyes Surveillance System and ECHELON's Rise

The Five Eyes surveillance system did not appear overnight. This entry traces how wartime codebreaking cooperation hardened into UKUSA, how that alliance expanded into a distributed global interception structure, and how ECHELON rose from a narrower classified term into the most famous public name for Five Eyes-era mass signals intelligence.

Declassified / Nsa/historical alliance surveillance system/2026-03-29