'Red Evatt' claims don't stand up | The Australian

"My first reason for suggesting that the evidence should be rejected is that in the early 1950s any fool would have known that ASIO would have such a premises under surveillance, so it was hardly a state secret, but in any event clearly that information could only be a leak from ASIO itself, and again any fool would know that ASIO did not leak to either Evatt or Dalziel."

Secret US files on Mamdouh Habib and David Hicks released by WikiLeaks | The Australian

"FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib told Egyptian interrogators under 'extreme duress' he planned to hijack a Qantas plane and had prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks on the United States, according to newly-released WikiLeaks files."

Spies, lies and archives

"The recently released ASIO files, however, shed new light on left-wing Labor senator and Whitlam government minister John Wheeldon, who last year was identified by journalist and author Mark Aarons as a possible secret Australian Communist Party member, a claim vehemently denied by Wheeldon's son and Labor veterans including former New South Wales premier Bob Carr."

Asylum seeker pleads for compassion - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

"He was granted refugee status three months ago and is waiting for ASIO to check his security status."

Australia and US sign secret satellite spy deal

"AUSTRALIA and the United States have begun a partnership to share top-secret intelligence from spy satellites as Australia moves to acquire its own satellite to boost surveillance of Asia and the Pacific."

Israel calls Aussie man a Hamas spy | The Australian

: "Among them was Sydney woman Shyloh Giddins, whose passport was cancelled at ASIO's request while she was in Yemen."

Jetstar to sue over 'theatrical' Sydney Airport evacuation | Crikey

"ASIC cards are essentially issued on the basis of background checks including by ASIO."

The challenge of intelligence by Allan Gyngell AO - Lowy Institute for International Policy Publication

"On 30 March, Allan Gyngell, Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, and former Executive Director of the Lowy Institute, spoke at the Institute’s annual Canberra Dinner on 'The challenges of intelligence'."

Emails between MPs and miners stolen - The West Australian

"The West Australian _understands that spy agency ASIO is particularly concerned about the theft of emails between Gillard Government minsters and a small number of major Australian resources companies doing business with Beijing."

Habib sues Egyptian Vice-President for torture | The Australian

"Mr Habib does not have a current Australian passport as he is still deemed by the security agency ASIO to be a security risk."

Australia Forum would be an asset - Opinion - Editorial - General - The Canberra Times

"Unfortunately, however, the Commonwealth's enthusiasm for funding anything in Canberra new and refurbished buildings for ASIO and the AFP aside is close to zero"

Blackmail warning as cyber raids target MPs | Adelaide Now

"Sources have confirmed that DSD advised that the passwords of selected MPs and their staff had been stolen."

Schneier on Security: How did the CIA and FBI Know that Australian Government Computers were Hacked?

"How did the CIA and FBI Know that Australian Government Computers were Hacked?"

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"I have read tens of thousands of pages of declassified ASIO files during the past quarter of a century, demonstrating that Spry's ASIO was involved in unprofessional, even odious operations."

Australian spies | Charles Spry | MI5 files released

"First, according to a top-secret cable, Sir Charles Spry, the director-general of ASIO, advised that, in the event of the Labor leader, Bert Evatt, becoming prime minister after the 1954 election, the British government should withhold important secrets from Australia."

Refugees escape and join protest | Green Left Weekly

"Many of the young people inside are recognised as refugees and some have been waiting more than three months for security clearances from ASIO."

High-tech firm drops its defences

"A COMPANY that provides high-tech electronic components to the Australian military and multinational firms allowed its customers' financial details to be accessed on the internet in an embarrassing security lapse."

CHRISTIANCONSPIRACY.ORG - worlds inteligence agebcies

"The Australian Secret Intelligence Service was founded in 1952. For more than twenty years, the existence of the agency was a secret even from its own government."

Net Traveller: ASIO Recruiting IT Spies with Google Ads

"It was a little surprising to find the Austrlaian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) advertising for Information Technology staff via good ad-words advertisements on my web site."

Feeling free by acting free | Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

"But I am very concerned with constraints on freedom of expression created by draconian anti-terrorism laws that were barely debated in parliaments and are now taken for granted as part of our political landscape, even though they leave us open to selective surveillance, raids and prosecution – and even prevent people from telling anyone that they have been questioned by ASIO. Writing in Griffith Review in 2006,"

Dow Jones Australia Warns Top Companies On Cyber Spy Threat

"Australia's top intelligence agencies delivered the warning, the Office of National Assessments and the Defence Signals Directorate, while there were also discussions with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and Federal Police."

Spies, lies and life lessons | The Australian

"But the material, along with other revelations that ASIO chief Charles Spry warned M15 during the 1954 Petrov affair that Britain should consider withholding intelligence information from a Labor government, confirm the complete breakdown of the normal bonds of trust between political leaders and bureaucrats in this period."

'Amateur-hour diplomacy' got US alliance off to a shaky start | The Australian

"It was 1948 and the US government had warned Australia and Britain that Washington was going to stop sharing secret information with Australia unless it set up its own intelligence service to improve security in Australia."

ASIO was forced to pay the Petrovs' price | The Australian

"'ASIO are fully alive to the possibility of Russian Intelligence Service agents being introduced into Australia in the free-for-all conditions of the Olympic Games and the temporary relaxation of visa requirements,' a British agent reported in MI5 documents that were opened to the public this week."

Australia Warns Top Companies On Cyber Spy Threat | Real Time Market News | Dow Jones

"Australia's top intelligence agencies delivered the warning, the Office of National Assessments and the Defence Signals Directorate, while there were also discussions with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and Federal Police."

NewsMaker - MGM Wireless moves SMS school messaging systems to high security cloud-based ICO Data Centre

"“The ICO Data Centre has an ASIO T4 security clearance and both the Data Centre and ICO Support Operations are also ISO/IEC 27001 certified to the ISO quality standard. Network Connectivity has three levels of redundancies.

Australian Secret Intelligence Service H.Q., Barton Australia

"The R.G. Casey building houses the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trad contains the intelligence service."

Intelligence Services

"The Australian Intelligence Community consists of eight organizations that combine oversight, assessments, and collection of intelligence information."

Critical Legal Thinking › Exception, Precariousness, Power & Authority: irregular migrants in Australian law (Pt. 2)

"However, the Minister, or ASIO by means of the security check, is free to decide not to exercise the discretion for any reason with no obligation to state or justify that reason."

Asylum helpers - The Catholic Leader: Top Stories

"'I recall a question being asked in parliament around 2004 of an ASIO representative about how many had been found with terrorist links,' she said.

CPA - The Guardian - #1496

"At that time, not coincidentally, Malcolm Fraser was about to introduce new savage laws for ASIO in a political climate that was heading in the wrong direction."

CPA - The Guardian - #1496

"Periods in detention are lengthening because of delays in the processing of claims, which in turn are partly caused by staff inadequacies, and partly by the requirement for ASIO to complete security checks before those granted visas can be released into the community."

PS News PS-sssst...! with Frank Cassidy

"They must be a clean mob at ASIO if a job ad featured in this week’s PS News Career Centre is any guide."

True tale of spies just like us | Adelaide Now

"While on the one hand Australia acquiesced to Soviet demands to expedite the departure of Evdokia, escorted by Soviet 'diplomatic couriers', ASIO was also quickly scrambling to prepare for her defection, if she wanted it. In the end, she turned out the better prize."

Critical Legal Thinking › Transitory persons, precarious lives: irregular migrants in Australian law (Part 1)

"The government pours its ‘unprecedented resources’ into shady operations of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and the Indonesian Navy and Police that attempt to disrupt ‘people smuggling’ operations and prevent boats leaving or intercepting before they reach Australian waters."

Ben Chifley threatened Harry S Truman with troop withdrawal from Japan | Herald Sun

"Even before Shedden reached the US in May, Attlee wrote to Truman again to assure him that Australia had lifted its stand on security with the creation of ASIO."

57 years later, a Petrov twist

"''[ASIO head Charles] Spry strongly supports Prime Minister … Spry states now that in event of Evatt becoming prime minister, UK Government should seriously consider withholding important secrets.''"

I'm no watermelon: Rhiannon | The Australian

"But the association was enough to have her feature in an ASIO file when she was just seven years old."

Petrov documents to be released

"Britain's famed MI5 intelligence unit will this weekend release previously classified documents on the most famous spy story in Australian history - the Petrov Affair."

The Triumph of Climate Politics | Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

" Many will remember Scott Parkin as the Halliburton/KBR activiist who was deported from Australia following an adverse ASIO security assessment."