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Article: Australia gains from US intel; Prime Minister Howard has announced that Australia will double its intelligence agency by 2010.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Byline: Janaki Kremmer Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -- Australia's controversial participation in the US-led war in Iraq has yielded a few rewards for the conservative government of John Howard, a strong Bush supporter: First, and more public, was the speeding up of the free-trade agreement with the US. Then came a more shadowy benefit: The right to share in the highest levels of intelligence which had so far been reserved for the US's closest ally, Britain.
Some experts see this benefit as a mere formality, but Australian intelligence officers are now at least officially on par with their British counterparts.
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