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Originally posted by philip: And in the EU as well, yesterday I read that all security agencies in the EU are reluctant to give the other countries entrance to the information. To have an advantage over other countries while we're supposed to be a unity.

That's a rather cynical conclusion Philip.
The more people that share a secret the less chance that it remains one. It is a sad but true fact that it is a neccessity to treat all counter-intelligence material on a strict 'need to know' basis, releasing information only when it is absolutely essential to do so.

That's not to say that nations do not trust eachother - more that they have a genuine worry of 'whistleblowers', political malcontents and even traitors in their midst and are sensibly seeking to reduce the risk of such persons derailing intelligence activities by leaking or sharing information with those who should not have access to it.