Saturday 9 April 2011

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."