One guess to which foreign agency ran a spy operation out of New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau for years without the government knowing.

#NZPol

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/512310/foreign-agency-ran-spy-operation-out-of-gcsb-for-years

Foreign agency ran spy operation out of GCSB for years

A foreign agency ran a spy operation out of one of New Zealand's spy agencies for years without the government knowing.

RNZ

@jeremy_pm

2010 under John Key... 100:1 that would be the US of A.

@BobLefridge The thing with 5 eyes is the USA don't need to run a secret operation from the GCSB as they have access to all data, also, 5 eyes members are able to spy on each other's citizens on behalf of their govt. My thinking is it's an agency with a 6 letter name thriving in the dark like moss that ends with sad when exposed.

@jeremy_pm

I'll bet you're right. That's a worse scenario for a whole lot of reasons.

@BobLefridge
Remember the Mossad spies traveling on deceased NZer's passports caught in Christchurch post the 2011 quake. I believe they were quietly escorted out of the country by the Key govt.
#NothingToSee #GCSB #NZPol

@jeremy_pm

I'd forgotten about them. They just vanished, eh.

@jeremy_pm

NRT believes drone warfare may have been involved, which shifts the focus back to the US.

http://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/03/institutional-traitors.html

Institutional traitors

One of the strongest narratives about "our" spy agencies is that they are basically institutional traitors, working for foreign powers (or j...

@BobLefridge Israel/USA? It's all the same innit.