Intelligence chief heavily warns Australia, reveals threat

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The head of Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, has cautioned that the nation will face increasing risks from espionage, foreign interference, and possibly sabotage in the coming five years.

In his yearly threat assessment, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess emphasized that several countries were “relentlessly seeking information’’ about Australia’s defense capabilities.

“Defence personnel are being targeted in person and online. Some were recently given gifts by international counterparts.

“The presents contained concealed surveillance devices.’’

The AUKUS alliance between Australia, the U.S., and the UK would continue to be a “priority target for intelligence gathering, even by countries considered friendly,” Burgess said.

He also noted that a few authoritarian regimes were acting more aggressively, recklessly, and dangerously.

“If the spy game has a rule book, it is being rewritten.

“If there are red lines, they are being blurred or deliberately rubbed out.’’

Burgess revealed that at least three different nations had plotted to harm individuals residing in Australia.

In one case, a foreign intelligence agency attempted to lure a human rights activist to a third country.

“They planned to arrange an ‘accident’ that was anything but accidental, to seriously injure or even kill the activist,’’ Burgess said.

“Fortunately, ASIO intervened to stop the travel and foil the plot before it occurred.’’

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