Journalists, military veterans, and judicial figures are being targeted by foreign espionage agencies at 'unprecedented' levels, with the country's intelligence chief revealing a 'hive of spies' was removed from Australia in the past year.
abc.net.au/news/mike-burgess-asio-annual-threat-assessment/102003692Journalists, military veterans and judicial figures are being targeted by foreign espionage agencies at "unprecedented" levels, with the country's intelligence chief revealing a "hive of spies" was removed from Australia in the past year.
In his annual threat assessment, the director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has also hit out at former military personnel who have put "cash before country" by working for authoritarian regimes, describing them as "top tools" more than "top guns". "Based on what ASIO is seeing, more Australians are being targeted for espionage and foreign interference than at any time in Australia's history," Mike Burgess said in a speech on Tuesday night.
"More hostile foreign intelligence services, more spies, more targeting, more harm, more ASIO investigations, more ASIO disruptions. From where I sit, it feels like hand-to-hand combat.""This means ASIO is busier than ever before. Busier than any time in our 74-year history. Busier than the Cold War; busier than 9/11; busier than the height of the caliphate."
During his speech, Mr Burgess alluded to a "hive of spies" which ASIO had disrupted in the past year which he said was "bigger and more dangerous" than
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