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tags:
  - Organization
  - Government
  - Australia
  - Intelligence
category: "Foreign Government"
summary: "The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service, which passed word of the Vanunu Dimona photographs to Israel through ASIS."
start: 1949
location: "Canberra, Australia"
---
The [[Australian Security Intelligence Organization]] (ASIO) is [[Australia|Australia's]] internal intelligence service. It was informed by *The [[Sydney Morning Herald]]* about [[Oscar Guerrero|Oscar Guerrero's]] attempt to sell photographs of [[Israel|Israel's]] nuclear facility, provided by [[Mordecai Vanunu]]. ASIO then passed this information to the [[Australian Security Intelligence Service|Australian Security Intelligence Service]] (ASIS), who informed Israel.[^1]

According to [[Ari Ben-Menashe]], aircraft loaded with arms landed in Western Australia, en route to [[Tehran]], with the permission of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, as part of a smokescreen operation by the [[Iran-Israel Joint Committee]].[^2] He also wrote that C-130 aircraft flew from Vietnam to Western Australia from early 1986.[^3]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015).
[^2]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*, p. 112.
[^3]: Ben-Menashe, *Profits of War*, p. 120.