Agents market asylum dream | The Australian: "ON Tuesday last week, 17-year-old Zabih received the phone call he has been dreaming of from his cousin in Australia.
'He told me that Afghans have suffered a lot but finally things are getting better for them now that your government is allowing asylum-seekers and families to live in the community,' the affable young Afghan refugee told The Australian at his family's restaurant in suburban Islamabad." ...
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Sunday 31 October 2010
Saturday 30 October 2010
How ASIO got it right during a time it got so much wrong | Article | The Punch
How ASIO got it right during a time it got so much wrong | Article | The Punch: ... "ASIO in the late sixties and seventies was clearly out of control, and what’s worse, the film-makers have found evidence in Spry’s Royal Commission testimony that he believed his own organisation had been penetrated, perhaps as early as the late Fifties, by the KGB." ...
Thursday 28 October 2010
Raytheon Australia: Growing Raytheon's cybersecurity capabilities
Raytheon Australia: Growing Raytheon's cybersecurity capabilities: "
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M: This sounds like we will be supporting some new and different customers. Who are they and what are their priorities?
AP: Yes, one of the main markets for Security Solutions is the Australian Intelligence Community (AIC), which includes civil and Defence agencies. We also serve the Intelligence Community of our Allies. Each of these customers has their own missions and particular approaches to their work. There are of course, stringent and vitally important security requirements to satisfy, but that is something Raytheon is comfortable with. As for any sophisticated customer, we will be focusing on the basics of performance, bringing great technologies and solutions, supporting the mission and being a trusted partner."
AP: Yes, one of the main markets for Security Solutions is the Australian Intelligence Community (AIC), which includes civil and Defence agencies. We also serve the Intelligence Community of our Allies. Each of these customers has their own missions and particular approaches to their work. There are of course, stringent and vitally important security requirements to satisfy, but that is something Raytheon is comfortable with. As for any sophisticated customer, we will be focusing on the basics of performance, bringing great technologies and solutions, supporting the mission and being a trusted partner."
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ABC The Drum - I Spry with my little eye
ABC The Drum - I Spry with my little eye: ... "Now we know even more about the Petrov Affair, and ASIO's role in it, and a docudrama screening on the ABC next Thursday lays out a great deal of the new information. It's called I, Spry, and in it Tony Lllewellyn-Jones gives a masterful performance as Charles Spry, the founding director of ASIO. Central to the performance are recreations of a series of interviews which Spry gave to the Hope Royal Commission in 1976. There's also remarkable surveillance footage from the time, when ASIO was going to extraordinary lengths to watch what suspected Communist sympathisers were doing." ...
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Wednesday 27 October 2010
Intelligence Reference: ELLIS, DICK
Intelligence Reference: ELLIS, DICK: "Born in Australia in 1895, C. H. “Dick” Ellis joined the� Secret Intelligence Service in Paris in 1923, after graduating from the Sorbonne." ...
'No breach of national security' from ASIO papers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
'No breach of national security' from ASIO papers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): "The head of ASIO says there was no breach of national security arising from documents mentioning the intelligence agency that were found during a drug raid last month." ...
ASIO creates wiretap hub - Security - News
ASIO creates wiretap hub - Security - News: "A telecommunications interception organisation has been created within the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) to provide wiretapping advice to law enforcement agencies." ...
Australia visa rejections increase amid security fears � VISA 2 TOUR
Australia visa rejections increase amid security fears � VISA 2 TOUR: "The number of Australian visas refused for security fears has seen a substantial increase, according to new statistics released yesterday." ...
Security upgrades to hit passengers' costs | The Australian
Security upgrades to hit passengers' costs | The Australian: "AIRLINES and their passengers have been warned to brace for a 'potentially massive surge' in security costs at international airports as a result of a series of ASIO reports on airport vulnerabilities." ...
Tuesday 26 October 2010
�CPA - The Guardian - #1478
�CPA - The Guardian - #1478: "This week the ABC is running an insidious piece of anti-Communist propaganda in the form of a dramatised documentary. The program is I, Spry: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy and it is concerned with the career of Brigadier Spry, the head of ASIO." ...
Control centre to take on terrorism
Control centre to take on terrorism: "The Australian Counter Terrorism Control Centre (CTCC) has been officially opened in Canberra.
� �Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the Centre would help improve the coordination of Australia’s counter-terrorism intelligence.
�� They said in a joint statement that the Centre would set and manage counter-terrorism priorities, identify intelligence requirements and ensure the process of collecting and distributing intelligence was fully integrated." ...
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� �Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland said the Centre would help improve the coordination of Australia’s counter-terrorism intelligence.
�� They said in a joint statement that the Centre would set and manage counter-terrorism priorities, identify intelligence requirements and ensure the process of collecting and distributing intelligence was fully integrated." ...
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Australian citizenship offered for British spies to work for Australia
Australian citizenship offered for British spies to work for Australia: "The promise of Australian citizenship and work in Australia’s national capital has encouraged up to 50 spies to respond to an advertisement for jobs at the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in Canberra." ...
Monday 25 October 2010
ASIO net offensive on Aussie militants | The Australian
ASIO net offensive on Aussie militants | The Australian: "Exremists will be targeted in an unprecedented internet offensive aimed at heading off the threat of homegrown terrorists in Australia.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation -- which is investigating hundreds of potential terror concerns and is worried about the activities of some citizens abroad -- has advised the federal government to improve the domestic security situation." ...
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation -- which is investigating hundreds of potential terror concerns and is worried about the activities of some citizens abroad -- has advised the federal government to improve the domestic security situation." ...
Sunday 24 October 2010
ASIO grounds local wannabe jihadists
ASIO grounds local wannabe jihadists: "A very peculiar situation indeed.
ASIO struggles to cancel passports of 'our local' wannabe fighters for Allah in order to prevent them from spreading Islam worldwide but at the same time our immigration policies ensure we get them here in Australia in growing numbers." ...
ASIO struggles to cancel passports of 'our local' wannabe fighters for Allah in order to prevent them from spreading Islam worldwide but at the same time our immigration policies ensure we get them here in Australia in growing numbers." ...
RELEASE OF ASIO ANNUAL REPORT | Robert McClelland MP
RELEASE OF ASIO ANNUAL REPORT | Robert McClelland MP: "Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, today welcomed the tabling of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) Report to Parliament 2009-10."
Revealed: ASIO history at the Cross roads
Revealed: ASIO history at the Cross roads
TO PASSERS-BY, Cahors at 117 Macleay Street, Potts Point, is just another of Sydney's grand apartment buildings: in the words of one local real estate agent, ''an art deco gem, offering period charm, elegance and character''.
But behind its blue-tiled walls, framed by an upmarket optometrist's and a flower shop whose star jasmine scent drifts fragrantly across the footpath, lies a secret history of betrayal, seduction and skulduggery.
It was here that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation set up operations in two adjacent units...
Saturday 23 October 2010
Friday 22 October 2010
The name's ASIO and we need you
The name's ASIO and we need you
Ever dreamt of ordering a martini, shaken not stirred?
Well, ASIO might be dreaming of you.
In the past 12 months the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has struggled to hire staff...
Thursday 21 October 2010
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