Aust. interest in N.Z. spy report
NZPA Canberra Australia's Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) says he hopes the New Zealand Government will pass on to the Australian Government findings on Soviet spy activities by New Zealand’s Chief Ombudsman (Sir Guy Powles), Senator Withers was replying in the Senate to the Tasmanian independent, Senator Harradine, who said that, based on Sir Guy’s findings, it could be reasonably assumed that there were up to 36 official Soviet intelligence operatives in Australia, plus a number of agents not attached to the offical structure, and an even larger number of agents in Left-wing organisations. emigre groups and the like. (In his report on New Zealand’s Secret Intelligence Service, Sir Guy said experience overseas had shown that up to 60 per cent of staff of Soviet diplomatic missions abroad consisted of intelligence officers.) Senator Harradine also asked if Senator Withers had seen a report that a former Pravda correspondent. in Australia, Mr Yuri Yasnav, had been identified as a K.G.B. contact man with the I.R.A. terrorist group in Dublin.
Senator Withers said he doubted if anyone knew anything about the Fiavda correspondent, but said he would see if he could find some information. He told Senator Harradine that a decision on whether or not the report
of the Australian Royal Commission into security and intelligence services was made public, would be made by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser).
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19761117.2.61
Bibliographic details
Press, 17 November 1976, Page 7
Word Count
235Aust. interest in N.Z. spy report Press, 17 November 1976, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.