woohoo! lionnoisy is back!
anws. i remember some time ago thee was an artikel abt the CIA
in SG.... idnt follow up on tt one though...
That was when the former Solicitor-General of Singapore - Mr
Francis Seow - attempted to make a strong entry into Singapore
Politics during the mid-1980's, and posed a threat to the planned
ascension of LHL to the PM post.
The Singapore Government claimed that the coffee house meeting
between Mr Francis Seow and a senior US Embassy staff had
conducted some kind of clandestine activity that
interfered with Singapore's politics.
Francis Seow was arrested, and the US Embassy staff had his
diplomatic privileges removed and asked to leave Singapore.
Read : http://www.escapefromparadise.com/NewFiles/seow.html
Incidentally, Singapore is no angel either, as the Malaysian had
reported the arrest of at least two Singaporeans for
espionage near a Malaysian naval facility - and when LKY was
asked, for his response, he did say that ''this is no surprise, we
do it, they do it, everyone does it''.
From the Singapore Window - it was reported that during
SingTel attempt to takeover the Australian Optus Telco, the Aussies
were uncomfortable that a national security asset was being taken
over by a foreign government agency.
During the course of corporate manoevering that generated public
debate, ABC attempted to throw some light into the debate
through interviews with personalities knowledgeable to
the issues - extracts of the transcript provide some eye-opening
details unknown to Singaporeans:-
Given the close links between SingTel and the
Singaporean government, the national security issue has provoked
both public debate and deep concern in some sections of Australia's
intelligence community.
So, would the position be different if it
were known that Singapore had already used its links with Australia
to spy on it or if it had recruited an Australian mole in our most
sensitive defence communications facility?
Those are precisely the allegations being
made by a number of people in our next story, the first of a
special two-part investigation by Nick
Grimm.
NICK GRIMM: Publicly, Singapore and Australia
have long been the best of friends.
But, eight years ago, even as we celebrated
the arrival of the first foreign forces to be stationed on
Australian soil since World War II, Singapore already had its spies
in our midst.
PROFESSOR DES BALL, STRATEGIC AND DEFENCE
STUDIES CENTRE: Singapore is more actively engaged in intelligence
collection activities in this part of the world than any other
Southeast Asian country.
PROFESSOR ROSS BABBAGE, STRATEGY
INTERNATIONAL: The reality is we can't afford to be naive
here.
It's not just one or two instances that have
occurred in the last 20 years.
It's a whole series of
instances.
NICK GRIMM: The allegations being raised
tonight go much further than the kind of low-level eavesdropping
that occurs between most nations.
WARREN REED, FORMER ASIS OFFICER: They're
getting some of our most closely guarded secrets and they're being
sold by Australian traitors.
NICK GRIMM: In the most serious incident
that's been revealed, it's alleged Singapore recruited an
Australian military intelligence officer to do its bidding at least
20 years ago.
Despite one arrest being made, it's
understood the traitor in the army's intelligence ranks was never
caught.
PROFESSOR DES BALL: They still believed that
someone was working for the Singaporeans but it was not the
individual who had been charged in 1981.
NICK GRIMM: They essentially had the wrong
man?
PROFESSOR DES BALL: Yes, there had been
suspicions over the past decade that, in so far as some other
person had been, and may still have been, working for the
Singaporeans, that a fall guy had, in fact, been set up to provide
a cover for the operation.
NICK GRIMM: So there is the risk that that
compromise of our military intelligence may still exist, that the
person may still be out there and may still have access to
confidential material?
PROFESSOR DES BALL: That's quite
possible.
NICK GRIMM: Lateline understands that ASIO
has ensured both the Australian and Singapore governments are fully
aware that it knows the extent of the
problem.
One of the few official acknowledgements of
Singapore's infiltration of our military intelligence system, is a
brief mention of espionage by Asian governments in ASIO's 1994
annual report to parliament.
The report stated: "During the year, ASIO
identified a number of intelligence functionaries working in
Australia and gained new insights into the interests of several
foreign governments."
Now, Lateline can make public for the first
time that one of the countries of most concern is
Singapore.
And, according to Australia's leading military
intelligence expert, Professor Des Ball, Singapore did not cease
its spying activities when ASIO published its
report.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw01/010808ab.htm
FRANCIS SEOW: Not in the
slightest.
Well, what happened in Australia happened
earlier in Malaysia.
In fact on this point I might mention that
the Malaysians were extremely annoyed and later angered at the
continual Singapore Government's spying activities in
Malaysia.
Now, to such an extent that, in the late
'80s, even the Singapore High Commission, through its High
Commissioner, was involved in suborning Malaysian civil servants
and armed personnel.
In the result, some 11 Malaysians, civilians
-- as well as members of the armed forces -- and civil servants
were arrested under the internal security act and the Malaysian
Government demanded the recall of the Singapore High
Commissioner.
But Singapore was able to get around this by
accusing Malaysians themselves of being involved in similar type of
activities.
http://www.singapore-window.org/sw01/010823ab.htm
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