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The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network. Richard Kerbaj. Blink Publishing. 2022. ISBN: 9781789465037.

The Secret History of the Five Eyes is a narrative history of the English-speaking signals intelligence alliance, tracing its emergence from ad hoc wartime cooperation to a powerful but fragile modern spy network. It combines archival research and interviews with senior intelligence figures to show both the alliance's major successes against common threats and its repeated failures, misjudgments, and internal tensions.

The book's central claim is that the Five Eyes is less the product of grand design than of converging self-interest repeatedly renegotiated in the face of common threats.

Richard Kerbaj is a BAFTA-winning, twice Emmy-nominated filmmaker, writer, and investigative journalist known for his work on intelligence and national security. He has worked extensively in both Australian and British media. Born in Melbourne to parents of Druze origin, he spent part of his childhood in Lebanon during the civil war.

He worked for The Times and then as security correspondent for The Sunday Times from 2010.

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