Australia’s secret services said the country was facing “unprecedented” problems with espionage and foreign interference, without specifying which countries.
Australian Intelligence Director-General Mike Burgess said in a speech Tuesday night that “multiple countries” and “skilled foreign adversaries” are behind the activity in the context of growing competition with China in the strategic and conflict-ridden Indo-Pacific region.
“More Australians are subject to foreign espionage and interference than at any time in history. More Hostile Foreign Intelligence Services, More Spies, More Targets, More Harm, More Investigations” from the Australian Security Organization. [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, ASIO, na sigla em inglês]Burgess said, naming military veterans, judges and journalists as some of the targets.
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Source: CM Jornal
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