Talk:Australian Secret Intelligence Service

Sheraton Hotel incident details
This article originally stated that in the 1983 Sheraton Hotel incident, the agents were arrested, and in an allegedly drunken state. I can't find any confirmation of that. Anyone have any? --K. 06:02, 5 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Hey - with the impending anti-terrorist legislation about to go through - are we allowed to write about such secret squirrel stuff or do we risk getting done for sedition? Do we have any martyrs out there?  Being only one of two d'angelos living in Canberra, with the possibility of arab ancestors from around 1,000 years ago, I'm definitely keeping my head down low.  I hereby formally state that I had nothing to do with this article and if I have said anything to offend anyone, I take it all back forthwith.  ρ¡ρρµ δ→θ∑ -  (waarom? jus'b'coz!)  11:21, 26 November 2005 (UTC) ps this logo is used by the Western Bulldogs and does not carry any political intent or meaning - I promise - they are as squeaky white waspish as you can get despite the fact that the old Footscray West neighbourhood is about as multicultural as any place on Earth (to put it mildly) - so I beg all ASIS officers reading this page - don't take out your frustrations on the Bullies!!

It is unlikely that the Sunday Age could have disclosed the names following the incident, as it did not exist until 1989 (unless, of course, "following" means over 6 years later). So it was either a weekday or Saturday Age, or one of the former Sunday newspapers such as the Sunday Press. -- Pdwerryh 11:25, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

References need restoration work
Once upon a time this article was very well referenced: shows the last version where references were associated with specific facts. Then the references got "cleaned up", in the process dissociating them from the article text. This is going to be a bunch of hard work to restore since a years' worth of editing has gone on since then, I'm unlikely to get very far before heading off. So I'm leaving a note here on Talk: for others to pick up on. Bryan 06:12, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Actually, never mind - sorting out the old "Digest1" etc ref templates was easier than I'd feared, I think I'm done. Bryan 06:48, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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I thought the bugging of the Chinese Embassy happened in 94-95?????

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Hope Royal Commission
The National Archives of Australia has released the records of the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security under the 30 year rule. There is more than enough material to spin this off into a new article. 59.167.57.197 (talk) 08:41, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

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Ratih Hardjono, Bruce Grant, & Gareth Evans section
This section seems out of place; its relevance to ASIS isn't clear, it contains a number of grammatical errors, and it seems to be written from a very specific point of view. Delete?

mnot (talk) 00:03, 7 December 2020 (UTC)