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The United States is working to improve intelligence cooperation with Germany but a sweeping "no-spy" agreement between the two countries is unlikely, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday.
一名奥巴马政府高官11月5日称，美国正努力改善与德国的情报合作，但两国间不太可能会签订彻底的“不监视”协议。

"We are not currently talking about an across-the-board 'no spy' agreement, but we do agree we need to work towards updated understandings between our two countries, and if we do that properly it can strengthen our relationship," said a senior U.S. administration official.
After revelations from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden about alleged eavesdropping（偷听，窃取） on M erkel, German media speculated that the German government might seek to join a n espionage alliance known as the "Five Eyes," in which the United States and a grou p of English-speaking allies divide the world into eavesdropping target sectors and share the results.
The "Fiv e Eyes" partners are the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
However, a former U.S. intelligence official said that for Germany to be invited to join the group, all five of the allies would have to agree and such an agreement is highly unlikely.
A more likely result from the U.S.-German discussions is an agreement by the American si de not to spy on German leaders like Merkel and also not to eavesdrop on German companies for economically competitive reas ons, the former official said.
However, he said that any such promise would be largely empty, as U.S. eavesdroppi ng rules already bar official eavesdropping for the purpose of commercial industrial
espionage. U.S. officials sa y th is policy is at odds with the practices of both friendly and adversarial（对手的） foreign countries.
The White House aims to complete a review of NSA surveillance practices by the end of the year and has acknowledged that more constraints are ne eded to ensure privacy rights are protected.
President Barack Obama, who has come under a stream of criticism from abroad o ver the NSA's activities, is cons idering a ban on U.S. eavesdropping on leaders of allied nations.。