Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Headquarters	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Leader	Attorney-General;
Staff	1,739

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Chile/1973 coup	Chile	A CIA military intelligence operation that overthrew of the democratically elected Salvador Allende.

Page	Quote	Author	Date
H. V. Evatt	“We must be aware of setting up a security organization which has political views, and which regards the left-wing man who goes too far to the left, as being a criminal. We must prevent any attempt to set up an espionage system for spying on our own people. The security service was never intended to be a secret police organization. Now it wants to run the police of Canberra and everything else, and it is only kept from doing so by public opinion.”	H. V. Evatt	19 October 1955
Paul Keating	“The Albanese Government’s complicity in joining with Britain and the United States in a tripartite build of a nuclear submarine for Australia under the AUKUS arrangements represents the worst international decision by an Australian Labor government since...World War One...And that approach was to have the United States supply nuclear submarines for deep and joint operations against China... And how did this come to be? The answer lies in Anthony Albanese’s reliance on two seriously unwise ministers. Penny Wong and Richard Marles....Labor’s valiant three fell immediately into line – they would join the neo-cons in the Office of National Intelligence, ASPI, the country’s principal US apologist, the security agencies and the hapless Defence department.... Indeed, two of our major dailies, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, have for five years now, argued the notion of war against China. Or readiness for war.”	Paul Keating	15 March 2023

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