Australia defeats 'hive' of spies - security chief
BBC News, Sydney
Mike Burgess did not identify any countries behind the network, but said the undercover operatives appeared to be "highly trained". A "lackey" planned to offer journalists all-expenses-paid study tours of a foreign country, he said, where spies with the "home-ground advantage" would seek to "identify any vulnerabilities that could be leveraged later".
"In one case, the intelligence service started monitoring a human rights activist and plotted to lure the target offshore, where the individual could be - quote - 'disposed of'," he said.Mr Burgess said Asio had taken out the network of spies after an "intense and sustained" campaign.
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