Peter Barbour

Peter Robert Woolnough Barbour (5 ga Oktoba 1925 - 7 ga Nuwamba 1996)  jami'in leƙen asiri ne kuma jami'in diflomasiyya na Australiya. Ya kuma kasance Darakta Janar na Tsaro wanda ke jagorantar Ƙungiyar Leƙen Asiri ta Australiya (ASIO) daga 1970 zuwa 1975.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Barbour a Geelong, Victoria, cikin iyalin malamai. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Scotch, Adelaide da Makarantar Grammar ta Cocin Geelong ta Ingila. Mahaifinsa mai kula da Jami'ar Melbourne Union ne, kuma Barbour ya fara zama a Kwalejin Trinity, Melbourne a shekarar 1947, yayin da yake karatun Latin da Jamusanci a Jami'ar Melbourne kafin ya shiga Rundunar Sojojin Ostiraliya a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu .  Bayan aikinsa na soja, ya koma Jami'ar Melbourne don yin karatun Master of Arts a Jamusanci, amma an ɗauke shi aiki a ASIO a watan Afrilun 1951 kafin ya kammala digirin. 

 Hankali da aikin diflomasiyya 
Aikin farko na Barbour a ASIO ya sa aka tura shi zuwa Netherlands da Italiya a matsayin jami'in shige da fice, don hana 'yan gurguzu yin ƙaura zuwa Ostiraliya. A shekarar 1959, an tura shi ofishin ASIO na Canberra a matsayin shugaban leƙen asiri. Matsayinsa na kama jami'in diflomasiyyar Soviet kuma wakilin KGB Ivan Skripov  ya ƙarfafa aikinsa, kuma ya zama shugaban ofishin Canberra a 1964, Mataimakin Darakta Janar a 1965 kuma a 1970 an ɗaukaka shi zuwa Darakta Janar.  Barbour shine Darakta Janar na ASIO kaɗai da aka naɗa daga cikin ƙungiyar. 

A lokacin da aka naɗa Barbour, 'yan ƙasar Australiya da yawa suna ganin ASIO a matsayin wanda aka yi masa katsalandan a siyasance, kuma yana isar da bayanai ga gwamnatin Menzies game da waɗanda ake zargi da zama 'yan gurguzu da wakilan Soviet da ke da alaƙa da Jam'iyyar Labour ta Australiya . Washegari bayan zaɓen Gough Whitlam na Labour a matsayin Firayim Minista a 1972, Babban Lauyan Whitlam wanda za a naɗa nan ba da jimawa ba Lionel Murphy (ministan ASIO mai alhakin), ya gana da Barbour don sanar da shi ba tare da wata shakka ba cewa kwanakin 'yancin kai na hukumar da rashin kula da ministoci da na 'yan majalisa sun ƙare. [1] Dangantakar da ta biyo baya tsakanin gwamnatin Whitlam da ASIO ta ƙare lokacin da Murphy ya kai hari a hedikwatar Melbourne a ranar 15 ga Maris 1973. Whitlam ya kori Barbour a ranar 17 ga Satumba 1975. Gwamnatin Whitlam ta sanar da cewa za a tura Barbour zuwa Amurka a matsayin Babban Jami'in Jakadancin Australiya a New York. A 1978, ya ɗauki mukamin jakada a Los Angeles, kuma daga 1981 zuwa 1984 an naɗa shi Jakadan Australiya a Venezuela. [2]

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1996
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1925