1943 BRUSA Agreement
The 1943 BRUSA Agreement (Britain–United States of America agreement)
History
Sinkov mission
The
Holden Agreement
The Holden Agreement of October 1942 gave the United States overall responsibility for Japanese naval codes, although with continued British participation.[4]
The agreement specifically stated that
BRUSA Agreement
Colonel
This led to the signing of the 1943 BRUSA Agreement on 17 May, which was a formal agreement to share intelligence information. It covered:
- the exchange of personnel;
- joint regulations for the handling and distribution of the highly sensitive material.
The security regulations, procedures and protocols for co-operation formed the basis for all signals intelligence (
UKUSA Agreement
The agreement was formalized by the UKUSA Agreement in 1946. This document was signed on 5 March 1946 by Colonel Patrick Marr-Johnson (who had headed the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi during the war) for the U.K.'s London Signals Intelligence Board and Lieutenant General Hoyt Vandenberg for the U.S. State–Army–Navy Communication Intelligence Board.[6]
See also
- Allied technological cooperation during World War II
- Atlantic Charter (1941)
- British intelligence agencies
- Quadripartite Agreement (1947)
- Tizard Mission
- United States Intelligence Community
References
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ Dufty 2017, p. 66.
- ^ "How the British and Americans started listening in". BBC News. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ a b Dufty 2017, p. 177.
- ISBN 9780385352666.
- ^ "Diary reveals birth of secret UK-US spy pact that grew into Five Eyes". BBC News. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
Bibliography
- Dufty, David (2017). The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau. Melbourne, London: Scribe. ISBN 9781925322187.
- Bamford, James (1983). The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency. Penguin Books. pp. 391–425. ISBN 978-0-14-006748-4.