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‘Witness K’ and lawyer Bernard Collaery charged with breaching intelligence act over East Timor spying revelations
A Canberra lawyer whose client exposed a secret Australian spying operation in East Timor has described the prosecution against them both as an attack on freedom of…
- By defence reporter Andrew Greene and Lucy Sweeney
- ABC
On Thursday, using parliamentary privilege, independent MP Andrew Wilkie revealed the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions recently filed criminal charges against Bernard Collaery and…
Witness K had raised concerns about a covert Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) operation he ran to bug East Timor’s cabinet in 2004 during negotiations about an…