Australia places advert for spies

Australia places advert for spies

SYDNEY (AFP): A contractor for Australia's most secretive and high-tech espionage organization has placed a newspaper advert seeking 40 operatives to spy on regional neighbors.

Weekend newspapers carried an advert placed by Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) contractor British Aerospace Australia for technicians with expertise in Asia/Pacific languages.

DSD monitors phone, electronic and satellite communications in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. It also listens to international phone traffic into and out of Australia.

"Suitably qualified linguists and communications operators to fill full-time, part-time and casual contract positions," the advert said. "DSD is an Australian government organization responsible for the collection, analysis and distribution of foreign signals intelligence in support of the government and defense forces."