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New unit to survey foreign spies A new counter-espionage unit has been set up by Australia's national security service, ASIO, to improve the country's surveillance of foreign spies. Chinese and Russian spies attempting to infiltrate Australia's military secrets will become a target of the new ASIO unit, The Australian reported. Concern that Australia remained a focus for foreign spies had prompted the move, the paper said. In recent years, Chinese spies searching for information on military related technology and strategic policy secrets have aggressively targeted Australia. The number of Chinese agents in Australia now outnumbered the ranks of Russian spies that dominated Canberra in the Cold War, government sources told The Australian. "China would be the biggest now by a fair way ... they have built up their capabilities over the last 10 years and are more aggressive in their activities," a source said. "Espionage is the forgotten side of the intelligence game but it remains alive and well." -- You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
