Nicky Hager » #Wikileaks: Leaked US cables spill the beans on NZ ties
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NEW ZEALAND’S collaboration with United States intelligence agencies was “fully restored” in August 2009 but both governments decided to keep the decision secret.
(...) the news “should not be acknowledged in public”.
The US imposed restrictions on intelligence supply in the 1980s as retaliation for New Zealand’s #nuclear-free policy, and American ambassador Bill McCormick was still saying in late 2005 that there was “little room to move” while the anti-nuclear legislation remained in place.
But the cable reveals the US quietly resumed the intelligence flow despite the nuclear-free policy. It said despite the 1985 #ANZUS break, New Zealand remained a member of the Five Eyes intelligence community, but with access to certain types of material curtailed.
“Our intelligence relationship was fully restored in August 29, 2009,” the SECRET/NOFORN cable, meaning for American eyes only – No Foreign Nationals, says.