ASIS in Timor

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Spymaster stirs spectre of covert foreign activities

Max Suich From: The Australian March 20, 2010 12:00AM

By revisiting the past, Bill Robertson has reminded us how little is known about ASIS and its role in Chile and East Timor
ABOUT 34 years after the event and at the age of 93, the last surviving founder of the Australian intelligence community, W. T. (Bill) Robertson, has reopened one of its great controversies: his sacking by prime minister Gough Whitlam, when Whitlam was in the middle of his own, terminal, dismissal crisis.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/spymaster-stirs-spectre-of-covert-foreign-activities/story-e6frg6z6-1225842681065

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Interesting. Form the article:


The documents relating to such events as Robertson's sacking and ASIS activities as a proxy of the CIA, to which Robertson guardedly refers, are still heavily censored, well beyond the needs of national security and the 30-year rule that ring-fences other government documents.

I thought they just wanted to keep the dodgy things hidden or maintain their culture of secrecy to the end. Don´t they usually invite some trusted historian to write the official story?