ASIO boss Mike Burgess has blown the cover of a sophisticated foreign interference operation that involved a former politician betraying Australia and attempting to bring a prime minister’s relative into the orbit of foreign spies.
In his latest annual threat assessment, the nation’s spy chief goes into remarkable detail about the so-called “A-team”: a dedicated unit within a foreign intelligence service that made Australia its primary target and operated for several years until at least last year. “The team is aggressive and experienced, its tradecraft is good – but not good enough,” Burgess said in a speech delivered in Canberra on Wednesday night.ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess said he had exposed the foreign spy unit as part of “a real-world, real-time disruption” operation.Stating that more Australians were being targeted for foreign interference and espionage than ever before, Burgess said: “Australians need to know that the threat is real. The threat is now. And the threat is deeper and broader than you might thin
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