Visits to Yemen a terror threat

Visits to Yemen a terror threat: "AS MANY as 40 Australians who have travelled to terrorist hot spot Yemen represent a potential security threat as some have had direct contact with members of the terrorist group responsible for the weekend cargo bomb plot." ...

Islamism is the most important issue we face | The Australian

Islamism is the most important issue we face | The Australian: "This despite well over 20 terrorist convictions including one that involved an Islamic group planning a Mumbai-style attack with a cache of weapons that has 'disappeared'. Yet Australia and the Western world now face a new major threat to life from groups or individuals who have extremist Islamic beliefs. This threat is the most important issue we face." ...

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Australian deported from Malaysia met Al-Qaeda men: report

Australian deported from Malaysia met Al-Qaeda men: report: "SYDNEY: An Australian man deported from Malaysia had been mixing with foreigners with ties to Al-Qaeda and has a brother who was convicted of a major terror offence, a report said Tuesday." ...

Opposition seeks ASIO briefing

Opposition seeks ASIO briefing: "The federal opposition has sought a briefing from the nation's peak intelligence agency about any known links between Australians and Yemeni militants." ...

The West, Islam and Sharia: Australia: Crackdown on Yemen terror links after US parcel bombs

The West, Islam and Sharia: Australia: Crackdown on Yemen terror links after US parcel bombs: "COUNTER-TERRORISM investigators are sharpening their focus on Australians with known links to Yemeni militants." ...

Pommy spies eye Australian jobs

Pommy spies eye Australian jobs: "More Bondi than Bond." ...

Crackdown on Yemen terror links after US parcel bombs | The Australian

Crackdown on Yemen terror links after US parcel bombs | The Australian: "COUNTER-TERRORISM investigators are sharpening their focus on Australians with known links to Yemeni militants." ...

Australian deported after ASIO request | Herald Sun

Australian deported after ASIO request | Herald Sun: "THE brother of a man convicted of a major terrorist offence has been deported from Malaysia following a request by ASIO to cancel his passport on security grounds." ...

Agents market asylum dream | The Australian

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." ...

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." ...

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."

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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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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." ...

�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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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." ...