Totalitarian slurs ignore the truth of ASIO activities | The Australian

"MEET Haydn Keenan, the writer and director of the four-part Persons of Interest documentary, by Smart Street Films, which started on SBS One last Tuesday. Keenan recently told Fairfax Media journalist Bridget McManus that, in the 1960s, he "regarded" himself "as a humanist and, therefore, probably left of centre and leaning towards socialism"."

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PRISM (surveillance program) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program known to have been operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007."

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Echelon note: Basis and History

"ECHELON has been claimed as "the largest electronic spy network in history". In essence it is an information sharing mechanism that involves the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It encompasses telecommunications, in particular satellite and microwave traffic."

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Cabinet papers reveal tough path of reform during Bob Hawke's term | World news | theguardian.com

"Bob Hawke’s government agreed to toughen background checks on Australian intelligence agency staff to “allay any concern by our intelligence partners that our standards fall short of their own”, according to newly released cabinet documents from 1986 and 1987."

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An Ominous Warning From 1991 About The Huge Risk Involving People Like Edward Snowden | Business Insider

"A NSA document from 1991 provides some insight on why Vladimir Putin called Edward Snowden a Christmas present after he landed in Moscow on June 23."

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Richard Ackland: Joining the dots could produce red faces among our spymasters

"Dot One: In 2004, David Irvine, the head of the external spy agency, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ordered the bugging of rooms used by ministers of East Timor."

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Asylum-seekers allege mistreatment by Australian navy - Channel NewsAsia

"Tensions were already running high between the neighbours after a diplomatic row erupted in November over claims Australian spies tried to tap the phones of Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, his wife and ministers."

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"First screened at last year's Melbourne International Film Festival, this four-part documentary examines the ASIO files kept on four men - Aboriginal activist Gary Foley, author-journalist Roger Milliss, student activist Michael Hyde and novelist Frank Hardy"

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ASIO's secret eye on communists opened | The Australian

 "DOCO-MAKER Haydn Keenan presents a four-part "secret history" of Australia, ripped from the pages of ASIO's files, starting tonight on SBS."

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Australia’s integration into US war plans against China - World Socialist Web Site

"As well as intelligence gathered by key surveillance bases such as Pine Gap, Australian agencies feed the NSA with vast amounts of data by tapping into undersea cables and operating listening posts in Australian diplomatic missions across the region."

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US/NATO missile defense key to first strike – Bruce Gagnon - News - World - The Voice of Russia: News, Breaking news, Politics, Economics, Business, Russia, International current events, Expert opinion, podcasts, Video

"Two of the bigger NSA listening stations are Menwith Hill up in Yorkshire, England and Pine Gap in the outback in Australia. Those are two of the biggest US NSA spy bases and the very same bases are involved in flying drones, they are involved in espionage, both against the people of Asia or Europe and against companies, corporations in Europe for example, that are bidding against American corporations.
Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_27/US-NATO-missile-defense-key-to-first-strike-Bruce-Gagnon-3713/"

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Fallout: Documentary about On the Beach - World Socialist Web Site

"Canberra’s active involvement in the “pivot”—coordinated US-Australia military operations, high-level electronic spying and military targeting through the joint Pine Gap base in central Australia and other facilities, the basing of thousands of US marines in Darwin and advanced plans for joint naval blockades against China—make Australia an immediate military target in any future conflict."

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No plans for specific ASD intelligence inquiry, says Inspector-General - Delimiter

"Australia’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has stated they have no plans to initiate a specific inquiry to examine allegations the Australian Signals Directorate had offered to share data about Australian citizens with foreign intelligence agencies, stating they believe current oversight of the ASD to be “sufficient”."

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Taman Shud Case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"The fact that the man died in Adelaide, the nearest capital city to Woomera, a top-secret missile launching and intelligence gathering site,[61] heightened this speculation. It was also recalled that one possible location from which the man might have travelled to Adelaide was Port Augusta,[10] a town relatively close to Woomera.
Additionally, in April 1947 the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service, as part of Operation Venona, discovered that there had been top secret material leaked from Australia's Department of External Affairs to the Soviet embassy in Canberra.[62] This led to a 1948 U.S. ban on the transfer of all classified information to Australia.[62]
As a response, the Australian government announced that it would establish a national secret security service (which became the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)).[63]"

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Global Positioning Systems Asia-Pacific region and geographic information system technology - industry - 3sNews_ China's geographic information industry _ the world's largest network of geographic information industry portal

"The Australian Government also adopted "Joint Project 5408" (Joint Project 5408) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Australian Defence Force navigation warfare (NAVWAR) the ability to provide a global positioning system navigation warfare defense capabilities. The first phase of the project is to define the research delivered in 2002, the purpose is to determine the current needed to enhance the global positioning system and replacement range."

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Armed man caught at Australian embassy in Indonesia | thetelegraph.com.au

"A MAN armed with two knives and a rope who scaled the Australian embassy wall in Jakarta is being questioned by Indonesian police."

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Terror threat high in Indonesia | The Australian

"DESPITE tensions between Jakarta and Canberra, Australia will inform Indonesia immediately if its intelligence agencies uncover evidence of terrorist threats in that country."

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Academics petition for surveillance end | The Australian

"MORE than 250 academics from around the world have signed an online petition calling for an end to "blanket mass surveillance" by intelligence agencies."

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Film buff David Stratton's starring role on ASIO spy cam

"A young David Stratton visits the Soviet embassy in Canberra, blissfully unaware that Australia's spy service is watching and snapping a photo."

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New ASIO headquarters remain empty

"Six months after former prime minister Kevin Rudd opened ASIO's new headquarters, the intelligence agency is yet to occupy the $700 million Parkes building."

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