2024-06-18 06:31:14
At least four ‘Indian intelligence officers’ were asked to leave Australia in 2020, after they allegedly attempted to access “sensitive defence technology and airport security protocols”, according to a recent investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). The four officers quietly left Australia and the issue didn’t snowball bilaterally, according to the Australian national broadcaster.
The expulsion of the officers has placed India on par with nations like “Russia and China, which are notorious for violating protocols overseas”, the ABC commented.
“They were targeting former and current politicians as well as the state police service. Crucially, they were also accused of monitoring the Australian Indian community,” the ABC report noted.
The report comes years after Mike Burgess, the chief of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in
2021, disclosed that the organisation had successfully disrupted a “nest of spies” in Australia.
“Last year, for example, one of ASIO’s investigations focused on a nest of spies, from a particular foreign intelligence service, that was operating in Australia. We confronted the foreign spies, and quietly and professionally removed them from Australia,” said ASIO chief Mike Burgess in 2021.
“We confronted the foreign spies, and quietly and professionally removed them,” Burgess had said.
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