SYDNEY – The revelation this week that India was behind a “nest of spies” disclosed in Australia in 2021 has been downplayed by government officials in both countries, in a sign of the deepening relationship between Canberra and New Delhi.
In 2021, the head of Australia’s domestic spy agency, Mr Mike Burgess, revealed that his agency had exposed a spy ring that had targeted politicians and police, but he refused to name which country it was from.
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