Name:   phil - Subject:   Coul It Be? Date:   3/20/2017 11:56:51 AM

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/trumps-crazy-british-spy-scenario-actually-happened-bef-1793433545

Frost alleged that his Canadian colleague, Frank Bowman, was sent to London in 1983 with the mission to spy on the two unnamed British politicians at Thatcher’s request. Bowman then made audio recordings of the conversations between the two politicians and handed them directly to GCHQ. The idea behind getting the Canadians to spy on British politicians was that GCHQ would have a way to deny charges of spying on the country’s own politicians if the situation was ever made public.

Although the British denied these allegations when they were revealed, Frost insisted that he carried out similar missions for the NSA in Norway and France. Frost left the CSE in 1990, allegedly forced out over his alcoholism, and his book was widely sneered at in the intelligence community, despite how plausible each and every charge in the book is given what we now know about spying in the 20th century.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/51

Beginning in 1946, an alliance of five English-speaking countries (the US, the  UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) developed a series of  bilateral agreements over more than a decade that became known as the UKUSA agreement, establishing the Five Eyes alliance for the purpose of sharing intelligence, primarily signals intelligence (SIGINT). For almost 70 years, this secret post-war alliance of five English-speaking countries has been building a global surveillance infrastructure to “master the internet” and spy on the world's communications.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/17/politics/gchq-trump-wiretap-denial/

May's spokesman argued this pact precluded the kind of spying alleged by Napolitano, saying: "I would add as a matter of fact that under the 'Five Eyes' intelligence agreement, we cannot use each other's capabilities to circumvent the law. It's a situation that simply wouldn't arise."

If the articile at gizmodo is to be believed the British asked Canada to do it for them before in 1983 to have two British cabinet members looked into, which is against the five eyes agreement as well since GHCQ is claming that their alledged involvment in spying on Trump would be illegal under Five Eyes.  

There apparently is precedent for this very thing happening, assuming that Frost/Gizmodo article is not fiction.