History of Five Eyes in Australia
Australia joined the UKUSA agreement (Five Eyes) in 1948. The agreement was a secret treaty and was not even disclosed to Australian Prime Ministers. The existence of the UKUSA Agreement was discovered by the Australian government during the 1973 Murphy raids on the headquarters of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
The purpose of the raids, instigated by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, was to obtain terrorism-related information that the ASIO was accused of withholding. Murphy was operating without the consent of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam or the Whitlam Government, nor the judiciary as warrants were not sought owing to the belief that it was Commonwealth property. This view would later be found to be legally valid by the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security. This Royal Commission also revealed the existence of Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) and the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD, now ASD).
After learning about the agreement, Whitlam discovered that Pine Gap, a secret surveillance station close to Alice Springs, Australia, had been operated by the CIA. Whitlam opposed the use and control of Pine Gap by the CIA , and he fired the chief of ASIO before being dismissed as prime minister. Pine Gap is now operated jointly by both Australia and the United States.
The existence of the Five Eyes Agreement was not disclosed to the public until 2005. On 25 June 2010, for the first time, the full text of the agreement was publicly released by the United Kingdom and the United States, and can now be viewed online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Signals_Directorate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Murphy_raids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Murphy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
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