Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.

Summary

US allies including Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Five Eyes members are considering scaling back intelligence sharing with Washington due to the Trump administration’s warming relations with Russia.

Allies fear compromising foreign assets’ identities. Sources with direct knowledge confirm “those discussions are already happening,” though no decisions have been made.

While the UK, Canada, and Israel publicly affirmed their intelligence partnerships, former US intelligence officials express deep concern about Trump’s Russia pivot.

Previous US attempts at intelligence cooperation with Russia historically failed.

  • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    21 minutes ago

    Any intelligence agency worth its salt should know by now that any secrets they share with the US will also be shared with Russia. Or anybody who pays a million dollars to go to a party at Mar a Lago so they can flatter Trump in person.

    Every world intelligence agency should consider the US to be completely compromised at this point.

  • SpicyLizards@reddthat.comEnglish
    12·
    2 hours ago

    Pivots to?

    From what exactly? It’s been common knowledge he’s a compromised asset for at least a decade. If there was a pivot, it would mean a moment of non-treason.

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
    44·
    4 hours ago

    share no intel with us. share only bad intel with us. we’re legitimately a threat to the entire world. the only way you convince baddies they’re bad is you ostricize them

    • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      And then, in true American fashion, we can call the member countries in the newly established Four Eyes “nerds, lol” as we continue circling the drain!

      Edit: sorry, I might be a bit grumpy this morning, he did a lot of shit over the last few weeks and it’s exhausting

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 hours ago

    EU (Denmark) here, France has independent intelligence from USA, maybe we should work with them more instead?

  • ReasonableHat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 hours ago

    In practice there is no way non-US intelligence agencies are sharing intelligence that is critical to their agents’ safety or national security with the US. I doubt they ever have shared that intelligence with anyone, save in very discrete circumstances. In public they will continue to pretend that they’re sharing, as they have always done.