Letter

In response to We can’t unscramble the AUKUS and ANZUS eggs

Future of Americans loyal to Trump working in DIO

Jack Waterford presents a masterly piece of analysis. In P and I on August 3, 2023, Mike Scranton described the setting up of the Combined Intelligence Centre (CIC-A) within DIO, which includes US intelligence analysts.

Well, Alan Kohler in ABC online on Monday called the Trump presidency a regime. We have our Australian Government Personnel Security Adjudicative Standard, which among other items includes loyalty to Australia.

In view of the loyalty of US citizens to Mr Trump and the rapid changes for the worse in both US internal and external policies, what should happen about the American analysts embedded in the heart of our security establishment? What should happen to the Five Eyes, or is it now only four and a half? Maybe even three and a half  – Canada won’t want to be sharing too much with the US right now.

— Geoff Taylor from Perth