The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has uncovered a sleeper agent running a spy ring inside Australia with the organisation revealing there are more foreign agents operating in Australian than at the height of the Cold War.
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess has said the organisation uncovered a sleeper agent who has been providing logistical and financial support for foreign agents engaged in intelligence missions.
The Courier-Mail's Damien Tomlinson told Sky News host Peter Gleeson Australia’s biggest asset as far as international security is concerned has been “our general location ... it’s just too hard to do things here”. “It sounds like our blessed run has come to an end”. Image: News Corp Australia
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