Australia has quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a newspaper reported Friday after Australia’s main security agency revealed a major counterespionage success.
CANBERRA, Australia—
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization , the nation’s main domestic spy agency, revealed on Tuesday it had “detected and disrupted a major spy network.” ASIO has not named the country responsible. “Proxies and agents were recruited as part of a wider network. Among other malicious activities, they wanted to steal sensitive information,” Burgess said in ASIO’s annual report on threats posed to Australia.
There were concerns that publicly expelling the spies could lead to retaliation against diplomats and other Australians living in Russia.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese would not say whether the spy network that ASIO had disrupted was Russian.
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