Australian Secret Intelligence Service | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/01/2019

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00:01:15 1 History
00:06:15 2 Royal Commissions examining ASIS
00:06:41 2.1 First Hope Royal Commission
00:07:44 2.2 Second Hope Royal Commission
00:08:36 2.3 Samuels and Codd Royal Commission
00:11:49 3 Controversies
00:11:58 3.1 ASIS in Chile 1973
00:13:30 3.2 The Favaro Affair
00:14:21 3.3 The Sheraton Hotel incident
00:20:15 3.4 Involvement in Papua New Guinea
00:20:59 3.5 iFour Corners/i program
00:24:19 3.6 Alleged management and staffing problems
00:25:42 4 Statutory basis
00:25:52 4.1 Intelligence Services Act 2001
00:27:03 4.2 Intelligence Services Amendment Act 2004
00:27:42 5 See also



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The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS; ) is Australia's foreign intelligence agency. ASIS was formed in 1952, but its existence remained secret even within the Government until 1972. ASIS is part of the Australian Intelligence Community responsible for the collection of foreign intelligence, including both counter-intelligence and liaising with the intelligence agencies of other countries. In these roles, ASIS is comparable to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Canada's Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
According to its website, the mission of ASIS is to "protect and promote Australia's vital interests through the provision of unique foreign intelligence services as directed by the Australian Government."ASIS is part of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio and its head, the Director-General, is directly responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The headquarters of ASIS is within DFAT's headquarters in Canberra. Its current Director-General is Paul Symon.