Australian Security Intelligence Organization
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| State level | Australian Federal Agency | ||
| Consist | since March 16, 1949 | ||
| Headquarters | Canberra , Australian Capital Territory , Australia | ||
| Employee | 1,980 | ||
| Website | www.asio.gov.au | ||
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO; German Australian Security and Information Service ) is Australia's domestic intelligence service and, in collaboration with the Australian Federal Police, is responsible for the defense against espionage by foreign powers and the monitoring and defense of terrorist and other political violence.
In political literature in particular , the ASIO is often briefly referred to as the Australian secret intelligence organization .
The service was founded in 1949 and is based in Canberra . In the 1950s he became known in the wake of the Petrov affair . In the 1960s, like other Western secret services, he monitored the opponents of the Vietnam War and other politically left-wing groups and sometimes wrongly classified them as spies of the former Soviet Union .
The suspicion that the Australian Labor Party has always had towards the ASIO led to a raid on the ASIO offices under the leadership of the new Attorney General Lionel Murphy, the so-called Murphy Raids , in 1972 after the ALP's election victory .
See also
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ASIO Annual Report
- ↑ Australia's Cold War spooks revealed. In: one news. May 30, 2008, accessed September 18, 2014 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 17 ′ 32.9 ″ S , 149 ° 8 ′ 40.5 ″ E