The_Info_Web/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/GOVERNMENT/INTERNATIONAL/Australian Security Intelligence Organization.md

tags	category	summary	start	location
Organization Government Australia Intelligence	Foreign Government	The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia's domestic intelligence service, which passed word of the Vanunu Dimona photographs to Israel through ASIS.	1949	Canberra, Australia

The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is Australia internal intelligence service. It was informed by The Sydney Morning Herald about Oscar Guerrero attempt to sell photographs of Israel nuclear facility, provided by Mordecai Vanunu. ASIO then passed this information to the 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

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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. ↩︎