MELBOURNE, May 25: An Australian spy agency boss told an inquiry on Monday he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign interference investigations a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at a Sydney Hanukkah celebration. Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organization, the nation’s main domestic spy agency known as ASIO, was testifying at a wide-ranging government inquiry into the spread of antisemitism in Australia ahead of the attack at Bondi Beach on December 14. ASIO reduced Australia’s National Terrorism Threat Level from “probable” to “possible” – the second-safest level on a five-tier...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
