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EYES ONLY ACCESS Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Director of International Intelligence Scarlett Robinson Secretary of International Defense Alec Prodger Office of the Queen’s Model United Nations Washington D.C. THIS IS A SECURITY COVER SHEET CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET NO DISSEMINATION OR DECLASSIFICATION The contents of this document are fictional based loosely on the X-Files and will be used for the purposes of an extracurricular event. This document contains information affecting the international defense and security of the English-speaking world. Within the meaning of the Espionage Act ss U.S.C. 35 and 38. Its transmission or revelation of its contents in any manner to any unauthorized persons is prohibited by law. Reproduction in any form or the taking of written or electronically transcribed notes is strictly forbidden. READ AND DESTROY EYES ONLY ACCESS About This Committee On behalf of the Queen’s National Model United Nations conference team, we welcome you to the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Committee! In this committee you will be discussing the security and intelligence needs of a secret alliance formed between the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. You, the delegates, will represent the Directors, Chiefs, and Commanders of the security and defense agencies that make up the Five Eyes Alliance in the year 1996, and you will be tasked with guiding your respective countries through difficult security and intelligence issues. The most recent incident involving extraterrestrial activity was the Phoenix Lights incident: the spotting of a group of strange lights in a V formation above Phoenix, Arizona. This committee must succeed in suppressing public knowledge of extraterrestrials while also avoiding attention from Interpol, who are looking to investigate any international suppression of knowledge by a major group such as the Five Eyes, as well as having to deal with new technologies such as the Internet or perhaps even experimental alien tech. The public’s and Interpol’s ability to live their lives without care for alien activity is in your hands, good luck! READ AND DESTROY EYES ONLY ACCESS Letter from the Director Dear Delegates, My name is Scarlett, and I will be one of your crisis directors! I am a fourth year history and economics student, and this is my second year involved with the Queen’s International Affairs Association, the parent association of the Model United Nations team. I want to emphasize that I had an absolute blast writing this committee; growing up I was fascinated by the ideas of cryptids, aliens, and conspiracy theories. My father spent many hours talking about what he really thought about the Moon Landing when I was young (and he acted as my consultant while writing this), and the discovery of the television series The X-Files did nothing but stoke the fires ​ ​ of this fascination. When I started writing this committee all I knew is I wanted to connect it back to The X-Files, and when I discovered ​ ​ the Five Eyes I knew it would be a fantastic vessel by which to explore the world of aliens. Hey all, my name is Alec, and I will be your other crisis director! I am a third year history major in the Concurrent Education program here at Queen’s, and this is my second year involved with the Queen’s Model United Nations team. Though this committee is mainly Scarlett’s brilliant creation, I helped with some of the later elements, mainly some of the fun crisis updates you will get to see! I was also very interested in cryptids, aliens, and anything paranormal as a child - my favourite book for years was called Encyclopedia Horrifica and had all sorts to do with the weird and ​ supernatural. With my love of history to go along with this love of the paranormal, I’m super thankful to be a part of this committee and hope you all have as much fun as we will have with this! Anyways, I really hope you have as much fun with this committee as I did in writing it. I encourage you to be creative, in both your research and your crisis arcs, and to really have fun with this one. Trust No One, Scarlett Robinson and Alec Prodger READ AND DESTROY EYES ONLY ACCESS History of the Five Eyes “All warfare is deception...” Sun Tzu, The Art of War In 1941, five months before the United States decided to enter into the Second World War, the United Kingdom and the United States came together to create and issue the Atlantic Charter, which outlined the goals of the Allies in a post-World War II world. Terms that were agreed to between the two major powers included: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations. This Charter set the precedent for a series of international agreements, declarations, and alliances between Allied countries that created international bodies such as the United Nations in 1945 to govern international relations and maintain international peace.1 Other, more covert, alliances were also forged out of the Atlantic Charter, with intentions to govern and share security intelligence within the anglophone world to protect the West against the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. This included the UKUSA Agreement, formalized in 1946, which formed the basis for cooperation between the United States National Security Agency and the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters.2 Later, Canada was included in this agreement in 1948, and Australia and New Zealand in 1956, which was eventually formalized to become the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance, 1 https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/atlantic-charter 2 https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ukusa/ READ AND DESTROY EYES ONLY ACCESS or FVEY.3 As a secret supra-national agency, Five Eyes is only known to the highest ranked officers of each involved country, and as such is able to circumvent both national and international laws in intelligence collection, surveillance, and defense implementation. Five Eyes came to play an important role during the Cold War, sharing information concerning the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and several eastern European countries (known as Exotics). A framework to monitor the military and diplomatic communications in Communist-aligned countries in the late 1960’s was eventually formalized into the ECHELON surveillance program in 1971.4 Throughout the 70’s and 80’s ECHELON’s surveillance program evolved beyond explicit military and diplomatic surveillance to include the surveillance of civilians; however, most individual intelligence agencies in Five Eyes had already been involved in civilian surveillance independently. The Five Eyes primarily collects information through national systems and the Upstream system which gathers information directly from the communications of civilians via fiber cables and infrastructure such as data flows. The collected information is then subsequently shared through the RAMPART-A partnership of which the Stone Ghost program is a part of, a sharing program between the Five Eyes countries through the newly-established Intelink-C, a secured intranet network.5 In 1988, Duncan Campbell revealed in the New Statesman the existence of ECHELON, an extension of the UKUSA Agreement on global signals intelligence. The story, 'Somebody's listening,' detailed how the eavesdropping operations were not only being employed in the interests of 'national security,' but were regularly abused for corporate espionage in the service of US business interests. The piece passed largely unnoticed outside of journalism circles. The History of Nuclear Development “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds…” 3 https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-five-eyes-the-intelligence-alliance-of-the-anglosphere/ 4 https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2015/08/03/uncovering-echelon-the-top-secret-nsa-progr am-that-has-been-watching-you-your-entire-life/amp/ 5 https://web.archive.org/web/20180321194414/https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/docume nts/1200864/tssinframpartaoverview-v1-0-redacted-information.pdf READ AND DESTROY EYES ONLY ACCESS The Bhagavad Gita, Veda Vyasa In 1938, less than one year before Germany invaded the Rhineland thus starting World War II, German scientists won the nuclear race and split the first atom, thus discovering fission. Immediately the international scientific community, specifically the United States, realized the implications of such a discovery after such experiments had been worked upon since at least 1919 when New Zealander Ernest Rutherford separated a nitrogen atom from a hydrogen atom. The United States and Canada thus kicked off the project that ended in the dropping of two nuclear bombs on Japan: The Manhattan Project; a race to create and use a nuclear weapon. In 1945, the first nuclear weapon was set off at the Trinity site near Los Alamos. Nuclear testing proceeded to occur around Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. In 1949, the Soviet Union, the US’ main enemy in the Cold War (1947-1991) developed its first nuclear warhead, leading to an arms race between the two superpowers alongside some global great powers. One such power was the United Kingdom, which developed its first nuclear weapon in 1952. Since their first nuclear tests, both the US and UK have each created a sizable arsenal: 10,577 for the US and 522 for the UK by 1995. Alongside nuclear weaponry, nuclear energy has become commonplace, though incidents within the past 20 years such as the Three Mile Island incident and the Chernobyl disaster have led to an increase in public mistrust of nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels.

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