Report On The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (1995)
 
This Inquiry was prompted by controversies that faced the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) in the early 1990s, and resulted in the legislation that guides ASIS today.
 
The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) was established on 13 May 1952, but only publicly acknowledged in 1977. It is responsible for covert foreign intelligence collection and was modelled on the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (or MI6).
 
In 1993 ASIS became a focus of media controversy following allegations by former officers. These led to media reports that (107) "'ASIS regularly flouted laws, kept dossiers on Australian citizens… and hounded agents out of the service with little explanation".
 
Two former ASIS officers and one of their wives appeared in an episode of Four Corners on 21 February 1994. They made allegations of mistreatment, inefficiency, disregard for civil liberties, and unaccountability.
 
On 23 February 1994, Senator Gareth Evans, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, announced that there would be a judicial inquiry into ASIS.
 
On 15 March 1994 the Commission of Inquiry into the Australian Secret Intelligence Service was appointed, headed by The Honourable Gordon J Samuels AC QC and Mr Michael H Codd AC.
 
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