Eyes over the Pacific

NZDF helicopters flying above a neighbouring Pacific island nation, are often providing aid, emergency relief, and military training and support. These humanitarian and support operations sometimes also include undeclared intelligence collecting against the Pacific nation hosts. (Photo: NZ Ministry of Defence)

EYES OVER THE PACIFIC – Declassified Australia

Posted by Declassified AUS Posted inFive Eyes,Tags:Pacificsurveillance

NICKY HAGER – 28 FEBRUARY 2022

A ‘morally conflicted’ spying operation on Pacific nations sees Australia and New Zealand running a covert interception and surveillance program against our Pacific island friends.

A spying network of satellite surveillance hubs and on-the-ground listening stations is being used by Australia and New Zealand to collect intelligence on the nations of the South Pacific.

Australia and New Zealand gather secret communications information from the Pacific region as part of the Five Eyes/UKUSA intelligence alliance and feed it into the vast worldwide surveillance network run by the USA’s National Security Agency (NSA).

Confidential government email, internet, and phone communications are collected and secret military networks are intercepted. All of this information provides the Five Eyes alliance with powerful tools to exploit and influence events and actions in South Pacific nations. 

The East Timor spying scandal, the cynical story of Australia eavesdropping on its tiny, friendly neighbour during crucial oil and gas negotiations in 2004, is but the tip of an iceberg. 

The Australian and New Zealand governments spy continuously on all their neighbours in the South Pacific. This dirty secret is rarely if ever debated in parliament or mentioned by the news media. The top secret details are usually only known to the military and intelligence officers involved.

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