Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_alliance_falklands_war/

By Gareth Corfield
The Register
18 May 2020

Dutch spies operating as a part of a European equivalent of the Five Eyes 
espionage alliance helped GCHQ break Argentinian codes during the Falklands 
War, it has been revealed.

Flowing from revelations made in German-language news reports earlier this year 
that Swiss cipher machine company Crypto AG was owned by the CIA and German 
counterpart the BND during most of the Cold War, an academic paper has 
described the Maximator alliance which grew from the Crypto AG compromise.

Authored by Professor Bart Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen in the 
Netherlands, his in-depth article, titled Maximator: European signals 
intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective shines a light on Cold War 
security and SIGINT from an oft-ignored perspective, at least in the 
Anglosphere.

As related by Jacobs, Maximator was founded in 1976 and brought together 
Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands as a northwest European 
version of the Anglosphere's Five Eyes. The latter comprises Britain, America, 
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand - what Sir Winston Churchill called the 
English-speaking nations.

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