Australian Secret Intelligence Service
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The Australian Secret Intelligence Service is Australia's overseas secret HUMINT (human intelligence) collection agency.[1]
People
Directors-General
- Alfred Brooks 13 May 1952-22 August 1957
- Ralph Harry 23 August 1957-31 March 1960
- William Robertson (Acting Capacity) 1 ASpril 1960-31 August 1960
- General Sir Walter Cawthorn 1 September 1960-2 July 1968
- William Robertson 3 July 1968-7 November 1975
- Ian Kennison 8 November 1975-10 July 1981
- John Ryan 5 November 1981-21 December 1983.
- Brigadier James Furner 27 February 1984-24 November 1992.
- Rex Stevenson Acting capacity 25 November 1992, appointed 9 December 1992-28 February 1998.
- Allan Taylor 1 March 1998-28 February 2003
- David Irvine appointed 1 March 2003[2]
- Nick Warner appointed 17 August 2009.[3]
External resources
- East Timor spying scandal: Tony Abbott defends ASIO raids on lawyer Bernard Collaery's offices, ABC News, 4 December 2013.
Notes
- ↑ Mission and Values, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, accessed 28 December 2011.
- ↑ QUESTIONS IN WRITING Australian Secret Intelligence Service , Parliament of Australia, 28 May 2007.
- ↑ Message from the Director-General, Secret Intelligence Service, accessed 28 December 2011.