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| Subject: Soaring cost of OZschwitz spy force passes $1b Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:57 am | |
| AUSTRALIA'S spies now cost more than $1 billion a year to run - and they are increasingly involved in frontline operations, according to a landmark review of the country's intelligence community.
Not only is the report the first time Australia has provided a headline figure for expenditure on its six intelligence agencies, the inquiry - the Independent Review of the Intelligence Community - is the first time since 2004 that the agencies have been independently scrutinised.
''Australia has seen the dramatic expansion of … intelligence in the last 10 years,'' the review's leaders, a former senior public servant, Robert Cornall, and a management consultant, Rufus Black, state in their report, issued yesterday.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/soaring-cost-of-spy-force-passes-1b-20120125-1qhvd.html#ixzz1kY62Eb90
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