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Posted on 06/06/2026 6:15:27 PM PDT by Words Matter
Yes, friendly nations absolutely spy on each other, and it is a common, widely acknowledged practice in global intelligence. [1, 2]
Why Allies Spy on Each Other
Verifying Intentions: Allies need to ensure that public agreements match private political intentions.
Economic Advantage: Nations monitor friendly rivals for trade secrets, technology data, and negotiation strategies.
National Security: Tracking radicalization, weapons development, or domestic instability within a friendly border protects the home country.
Strategic Hedging: Foreign policies change quickly, so nations maintain intelligence assets in case an ally changes its stance. [3]
Historic and Modern Examples
The Five Eyes Loophole: The US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have a pact not to spy on each other, but leaks show they occasionally bypass this to monitor each other's citizens. [4, 5]
US Eavesdropping on Germany: In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the US National Security Agency (NSA) tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone. [6, 7]
French Economic Espionage: France has a long-standing reputation for aggressively gathering economic intelligence from Western allies, including the US. [8]
The Jonathan Pollard Case: In 1987, an American intelligence analyst was convicted of selling highly classified US military secrets to Israel, an incredibly close ally. [9, 10, 10]
The "Gentleman's Agreement" Reality
Intelligence agencies operate on the rule that there are no permanent friends, only permanent interests. While allies share a massive amount of intelligence willingly through official channels, they still maintain independent operations to avoid being blindsided. When caught, it usually results in temporary diplomatic friction rather than a breakdown of the alliance. [11]
... Let me know if you'd like to look into:
The Edward Snowden leaks and their impact on US-Europe relations.
How the Five Eyes alliance shares data while navigating domestic privacy laws.
Historical cases of industrial and economic espionage between friendly nations.
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Old news, old facts
Do friendly nations spy on each other…..
OH!……like Obama on Trump?
Yes. The U.S. spies on all its allies. For its own formulation of policy it wants to know as much about what it’s allies are doing in security matters - as its enemies. Ignorance is a source of mistakes.
Obama on Trump is a great example. But Obama wasn’t “friendly “ to Trump...
Not sure why there would even be a question about it.
You spy even on your friends because you are not the same country and you have to make sure that what your friends are telling you is true. They may think it is true but, is it?
It also makes it very handy when you need to pass information along unofficially.
You meet with your counterpart and casually leave something out for them to see. Your counterpart can then pass it on to the people on his side without any diplomatic channels being used or information possibly going astray.
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Yes. For example, all diplomatic personnel are assumed to spy on their host countries. This is nothing new. Granted, getting caught in the act would be a serious issue, but it has always been this way.
The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case Up Close: In 1987, Pollard was a US Navy intelligence analyst, convicted of selling highly classified US military secrets to Israel, a tiny best- forgotten place that overbearingly purports to be a “close ally” of the United States.
Pollard “said” he spied for ideological reasons but his wife was given expensive jewelry to facilitate the pair’s US betrayal.
Absolutely right !
Your question should be stated as “in whose interest is it to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel.
And who are the background sources, and behind the background sources, pushing such wedges into U.S. populist notions???
Israel is under attack and at the moment from two proxies of the Mullah’s in Tehran. Israel is doing all it can to try to convince those outfits to quit attacking Israel - they will lose.
Yet, the anti-Israel forces want populists in the west to take Israel as the bad guy in all that, because Israel is relentless in its response.
THE USA SPIES ON IT’S OWN CITIZENS.😡
Google AI is a joke. They are the most bias AI on the planet.
I didn’t even read what it said because I know how bad Google AI is. Even if I agree with the answer...it’s a joke.
Try Grok, Claude, chatGPT, coPilot, or even deepseek from china.
Do bears “bear”?
Do bees ‘bee”?
Oh yeah
Everyday. 😆
Netanyahu greeted him on the tarmac. I'll spare you the photos.
Does a bear s**t in the woods?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oops, delete that question about the Pope.
Of course! Everyone spies on everyone else. It’s the nature of the business.
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