Abstract
Although France ranked among the victors in 1945 and set about creating a world-class Sigint apparatus as she rose from her ashes, Paris was not invited to sign the 1946 UKUSA Agreement – nor did French leaders want to join the AUSCANUKUS community. Determining how this situation came about is not as straightforward as it seems. France had played a pivotal role in early peacetime Sigint cooperation, the breaking the Enigma and collaboration with Great Britain continued even after the fall of France in 1940. Nevertheless, post-war French ambitions and Anglo-Saxon suspicions prevailed at the dawn of the Cold War, resulting in a unique dynamic between these three powers.
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