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India on Tuesday said The Washington Post report made “unwarranted and unsubstantiated” imputations on a serious matter.The Washington Post report also said that two RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) officers were expelled from Australia in 2020.The ABC said ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess first alluded to the spy ring in his annual threat assessment delivered in 2021, but he did not disclose which country was behind the activity.”The spies developed targeted relationships with current and former politicians, a foreign embassy and a state police service,” the report quoted Burgess as saying during his March 2021 speech inside ASIO’s Canberra headquarters.”They monitored their country’s diaspora community.They tried to obtain classified information about Australia’s trade relationships,” he said.Burgess also detailed how the “nest of spies” had successfully cultivated and recruited an Australian government security clearance holder who had access to “sensitive details of defence technology”, the ABC report said.
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Two Indian spies expelled from Australia for trying to ‘steal secrets’ in 2020
