Asio director general of security says some of the countries involved in foreign interference ‘would surprise you’
Mike Burgess urged politicians and the media to be careful of their language following the decision to raise the terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”.Mike Burgess urged politicians and the media to be careful of their language following the decision to raise the terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”.Australia’s spy boss Mike Burgess has confirmed Iran as one of “at least three or four” countries involved in foreign interference in Australia’s diaspora communities.
Earlier this year, former cyber security minster Clare O’Neil revealed ASIO had disrupted the activities of individuals conducting surveillance in the home of an Iranian-Australian. Burgess said the current situation is a “completely different” scenario to 2014 when security agencies last raised the terror alert and his key message is there is a “broad range of ideologies” threatening Australia’s social fabric.
The Asio boss said security agencies “took each case on its merits” and if a person applying for a visa didn’t “have an ideology or support for violent extremism ideology, then that’s not a problem. If they have a support for that ideology, that will be a problem.”“The most likely terrorist attack in this country now is an individual which will go to violence with little or no warning and actually little to no planning,” he said.
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