Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service |
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Appointer | Quentin Bryce |
Inaugural holder | Alfred Deakin Brookes |
Formation | 1952 |
The Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service is the executive officer of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS), Australia's foreign intelligence agency.
The Director-General is directly responsible to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (currently Kevin Rudd), and regularly meets with the Minister to brief them on ASIS activities.[1]
There have been eleven officially-appointed Directors and Directors-General of ASIS since 1952. The current Director is Nick Warner AO.[2]
Tenure | Name |
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1952–1957 | Alfred Brookes |
1957–1960 | Ralph Harry |
1960–1968 | Major General Walter Cawthorn |
1968–1975 | Bill Robertson OBE MC |
1975–1981 | Ian Kennison |
1981–1983 | John Ryan |
1984–1992 | Brigadier Jim Furner CBE |
1992–1998 | Rex Stevenson AO |
1998–2003 | Allan Taylor AM |
2003–2009 | David Irvine AO |
2009–present | Nick Warner AO |
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