Australia should not get too euphoric about a recent supposed upgrading of its intelligence relationship with the US, cautions a former senior intelligence officer, John Miller. Negligible action was taken on a federal police probe in the early 1990s, which revealed that a number of ASIO officers were spying for hostile intelligence services.A recent front-page headline of The Australian (September 1, 2005) declared: “New ranking lets us share in US secrets”.In what appears to have been a scoop …
