NZ is a partner to the alliance of the willing on the WAR on TERRORISM.

The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), which operates the Waihopai Spy Base, confirmed it alerted its alliance the United States, Australia, Britain and Canada, fearing a coordinated assault on the Ukusa intelligence alliance, after the attack by the ANZAC Ploughshares, The Dominion Post reported. The ANZAC Ploughsares is made up of a priest, a farmer, and an organic gardener.

GCSB director Air Marshal Bruce Ferguson said an assurance was given that no sensitive equipment had been compromised in the attack on the GCSB's listening station that feeds into a US-led global electronic eavesdropping network. Mr Ferguson said his agency had scrambled to alert its intelligence "friends and partners".

The admission from the Government's serving spymaster came in response to questions about whether New Zealand's friends and allies were concerned over Wednesday's security breach by the Ploughshares protest group.