The intelligence services of Canada, New Zealand, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia often work together and may need to reconsider how they deal with threats to their common security
The United States and its closest allies have spent nearly two decades building an elaborate system to share intelligence about international terrorist groups, and it has become a key pillar of a global effort to thwart attacks.
The intelligence services of New Zealand and the United States — along with those in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia — enjoy a close working relationship. The so-called Five Eyes routinely share highly classified intelligence about al-Qaeda or the Islamic State, gleaned from their respective networks of surveillance systems and human spies.
“We talked about it in terms of how the process of radicalization in various forms of extremist groups compares to each other but not in the context of specific cases or intelligence exchanges,” he said.
“These groups are obviously learning from each other,” said Joshua Geltzer, who served as the senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council staff during the Obama administration. He said that the U.S. is not likely to know as much about domestic radical groups in New Zealand as the island country’s security services do, so on a practical level there may not be much tactical intelligence to share.
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