Australian Signals Directorate
The Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) formerly the Defence Signals Directorate, is a signals intelligence agency in the Australian Government Department of Defence, with its headquarters in Canberra.[1]
According to the New York Times, a 2013 document released by Edward Snowden showed that the ASD was monitoring a US law firm representing Indonesia in a trade dispute with the US, and passing the resulting intelligence on to US officials.[2]
Notes
- ↑ About ASD, Australian Signals Directorate, 16 February 2014.
- ↑ James Risen and Laura Poitras, Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm, New York Times, 15 February 2014.
