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... Are US intelligence services withholding information from their closest allies on peace negotiations with Russia and Ukraine?

According to anonymous intelligence officials, a memo issued by Gabbard weeks ago explicitly ordered that all information on Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations be withheld from US allies, US news channel CBS reported on August 22.

In the memo, the talks were reportedly classed as "NOFORN" by US intelligence, meaning no foreign dissemination. That included withholding intel from members of the "Five Eyes" alliance -- a traditionally tight-knit intelligence network linking the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

The alliance has been one of the world's best organised intelligence-sharing groups since it was founded in 1946. Since the end of World War II its members have been the US's closest security allies, and a potential move by Washington to distance itself from Five Eyes has worried intelligence experts. ...

The idea that Washington would now privilege a confidential relationship with Putin over its longstanding allies is striking.

"There has never been a precedent in which the United States had stopped sharing intelligence or has given a precedence to its main other adversary as opposed to Five Eyes," Trenta added. "But here we have a case in which the United States is openly favouring an authoritarian regime against its traditional, historical democratic allies." ...