Lague,
David. "Our Spies Will Soon Have to Emerge from the Shadows."
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Mar. 2000. [http://www.smh.com.au]Materials arranged chronologically.
Lague,
David. "Our Spies Will Soon Have to Emerge from the Shadows."
Sydney Morning Herald, 16 Mar. 2000. [http://www.smh.com.au]
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has coordinated the drafting of legislation that would make the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) "accountable to Parliament while maintaining sufficient secrecy to give it the freedom of action its managers desire.... Australia's spy service has traditionally operated within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade without any legal basis for its existence."
Hartcher,
Peter. "KGB Spy Still at Large after Infiltrating ASIO." Australian
Financial Review, 29 Jun. 2000. [http://afr.com.au]
According to materials provided by former KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who defected to Britain in 1992, a KGB agent penetrated the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), remained "undetected for a decade[,] and is still living in Australia. The agent ... rose to a senior position.... Officials said he was not prosecuted because of a lack of evidence."
Ball, Desmond J. "Silent Witness: Australian Intelligence and East Timor." Pacific Review 114, no. 1 (2001): 35-62.
Chulov,
Martin. "Psssst, Want To Be a Spy?" The Australian, 5 Mar.
2001. [http:// theaustralian.com.au]
The Australian intelligence services are for the first time openly advertising for recruits.
The
Age (Melbourne). "Editorial Opinion:
Secret Intelligence? Can't Say Too Much." 5 Jul. 2001. [http://www.theage.com.au]
The "immunity provisions" of the "Intelligence Services Bill now before Federal Parliament ... are a profoundly disturbing aspect of a bill that is in other respects a reasonable response to the recommendations of the 1995 commission of inquiry into the intelligence service. ASIS and Australia's electronic intelligence-gathering agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, will be on a statutory footing for the first time, and ASIS will come under the scrutiny of a parliamentary committee, as is already the case with the counter-intelligence agency, ASIO. Greater accountability in intelligence gathering is desirable; the worry is that this bill's immunity provisions will undermine accountability, not enhance it."
Wilkinson, Marian. "Spy Stations Key to Australian Role." Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Sep. 2001, 3.
Grono, Nicholas. "Australia's Response to Terrorism: Strengthening the Global Intelligence Network." Studies in Intelligence 48, no. 1 (2004): 27-38.
"Canberra's process of adjusting its intelligence to meet the challenges of global terrorism,... started more than two years before the September 11 attacks..., in preparation of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. After September 11, the Australian government further strengthened its intelligence capabilities through legislative and funding adjustments."
Wilkie, Andrew. Axis of Deceit: The Story of the Intelligence Officer Who Risked All to Tell the Truth about WMD and Iraq. Melbourne: Black, 2004.
According to Cain, JIH 4.2, the author resigned from Australia's Office of National Assessments (ONA) "in a blaze of publicity in protest at the decision of the Liberal Party-led government ... to join the invasion of Iraq in March 2003." Wilkie maintains that he "realised that the many documents and reports he had handled in ONA were being misused by the government to justify a war."
United Press International. "Australia Beefs Up Counterterrorism Agency." Washington Times, 16 Oct. 2005. [http://www.washingtontimes.com]
On 16 October 2005, The Age newspaper reported that "Australia will double the size" of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIO) "over the next five years to combat the threat of home-grown terrorists.... Attorney General Philip Ruddock said the increase had been recommended in a confidential review" by former ASIO head Allan Taylor.
"Vulture." "Vulture's Row: Aussie Eyes Are Smiling." Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Jan. 2006): 16.
Australian Prime Minister Howard had concluded a new agreement with the United States on intelligence sharing. The "arrangement reportedly grants Canberra access to all levels of raw US intelligence, assessments and real-time operational information for planning." [emphasis in original]
Koc-Menard, Sergio. "Australia's Intelligence and Passenger Assessment Programs." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 19, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 218-236.
The author discusses Australia's Advanced Passenger Processing (APP) System. The system allows air carriers to conduct pre-boarding passenger screening at overseas locations.
Reuters. "Australia Doubles Its Spy Numbers Since 2001." 27 Dec. 2006. [http://www.washingtonpost.com]
According to an Australian daily on 28 December 2006, an "influx of Chinese spies has forced" the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO), the nation's domestic security agency, "into a recruiting drive to counter the threat as well as that posed by Muslim extremists.... Attorney General Philip Ruddock declined to confirm any increase in Chinese-language-speaking spies, but said ASIO had been on a major recruitment drive since the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. 'We have committed very significant resources which has enabled ASIO to expand its staffing to 1,200, double the number it had at 2001,' Ruddock told local media." The newspaper "said around 88 linguists had been employed since 2004 under the recruitment drive which plans to see ASIO grow to more than 1,800 by 2011." It also reported that ASIO "was having less success recruiting fluent Arabic speakers, with fewer than a dozen working inside security and intelligence agencies."
Associated Press. "Judge Criticizes Australian Spy Agency." 12 Nov. 2007. [http://www.ap.org]
On 12 November 2007, New South Wales state Supreme Court judge Michael Adams accused the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) "of falsely imprisoning a Pakistani-born Australian citizen who faced terrorism-related charges that were later dropped."
Hyland, Tom. "Money for Nothing and Your Clicks for Free." Sunday Age (Melbourne), 2 Mar. 2008. [http://www.theage.com.au]
"Our spies are clinging to Cold War culture, ignoring freely available sources of intelligence such as the internet."
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