https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_alliance_falklands_war/
By Gareth Corfield
The Register
18 May 2020
Dutch spies operating as a part of a European equivalent of the Five Eyes
espionage alliance helped GCHQ break Argentinian codes during the Falklands
War, it has been revealed.
Flowing from revelations made in German-language news reports earlier this year
that Swiss cipher machine company Crypto AG was owned by the CIA and German
counterpart the BND during most of the Cold War, an academic paper has
described the Maximator alliance which grew from the Crypto AG compromise.
Authored by Professor Bart Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen in the
Netherlands, his in-depth article, titled Maximator: European signals
intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective shines a light on Cold War
security and SIGINT from an oft-ignored perspective, at least in the
Anglosphere.
As related by Jacobs, Maximator was founded in 1976 and brought together
Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands as a northwest European
version of the Anglosphere's Five Eyes. The latter comprises Britain, America,
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand - what Sir Winston Churchill called the
English-speaking nations.
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