Australia’s domestic spy chief reveals that a foreign regime recruited a former lawmaker to access classified information through high profile figures, including a member of a prime minister’s family.
Australia ’s domestic spy chief has revealed a foreign regime recruited a former lawmaker as part of a plan to access classified information via high profile figures, including a member of a prime minister’s family. Mr Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australia n Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), warned that the threat of foreign interference was at its highest levels yet, according to his annual threat assessment delivered in Canberra on the evening of Feb 28.
To underline the risks, Mr Burgess revealed a previously classified incident in which an unnamed country successfully turned a former Australian politician, who helped foreign spies create a fake overseas conference to lure leading Australian academics and government figures. Once the attendees arrived, the unidentified country attempted to recruit the high-profile visitors, as well as grilling them for classified information. “This politician sold out their country, party and former colleagues to advance the interests of the foreign regime,” Mr Burgess said, without naming the lawmake
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