DSS Tutorial 12PM by https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu en-us 2023-10-10 22:06:05 UTC 2023-10-11 01:44:28 UTC hello@padlet.com important quote... https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740916957 " the prime minister said that the last thing we wanted to do was to take precipiate action in this matter that would embarrass CIA"
- shows multi-national power hierarchies... coercive qualities of CIA

 "Whitlam was “uneasy” about Australia’s involvement because if it were to “receive any publicity as a result of these matters, then he would find it extremely difficult to justify our presence there,” according to one declassified memorandum of conversation written by then ASIS Director-General William Robertson". 
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]]> 2023-10-11 01:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740916957 https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740916958 Whitlam was “uneasy” about Australia’s involvement because if it were to “receive any publicity as a result of these matters, then he would find it extremely difficult to justify our presence there”]]> 2023-10-11 01:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740916958 “The Australian government is renowned for its culture of secrecy. Australia May Well Be the World’s Most Secretive Democracy, the New York Times declared in a headline two years ago. “No other developed democracy holds as tight to its secrets,” the article reported. https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740917265 2023-10-11 01:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740917265 “The primary beneficiary of this secrecy is the Australian government, which enjoys security from democratic accountability, and security from robust, evidence-based debate as to how the intelligence services should be used. But,” he concludes, “this is not national security in any meaningful sense.” https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740918152 2023-10-11 01:41:27 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740918152 https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740921087 “receive any publicity as a result of these matters, then he would find it extremely difficult to justify our presence there” -> kind of implies the US’ overall stress with exposing their covert intelligence/imperialistic operations with their first-world alliance in the Cold War.]]> 2023-10-11 01:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740921087 National Security Archive book, The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability, [was submitted] as evidence that transparency would strengthen, rather than damage, Australian democracy. https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740921680 2023-10-11 01:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740921680 https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740922428 “The Australian government insists on secrecy to avoid having to admit to the Australian public that it helped destroy Chilean democracy”]]> 2023-10-11 01:44:28 UTC https://padlet.com/toriball/wc3po2hhnfuk75tu/wish/2740922428