John Moten

John Moten
8th Director-General of Security
In office
8 October 1988  10 January 1992
Prime Minister Bob Hawke
Paul Keating
Preceded by Alan Wrigley
Succeeded by David Sadleir
Personal details
Born John Michael Moten
8 December 1933
Adelaide, South Australia
Nationality Australian
Relations Murray Moten (father)
Alma mater University of Adelaide
University of Sydney
Occupation Aeronautical engineer

John Michael Moten (born 8 December 1933)[1] is an Australian aeronautical engineer. From 1988 to 1992, he was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).[2] He was the son of Brigadier Murray Moten, a senior Australian Army officer.[3]

Moten was not a career intelligence officer. He had worked at the Department of Defence, where he was Deputy Secretary of the Strategic and Intelligence Section when he accepted the position of ASIO's Director-General. He retired in January 1992, three years into his five-year term. The reasons for his early retirement were never given.[4]

References

  1. Who's Who in Australia. Colorgravure Publications. 2006.
  2. Biographical cuttings on John Michael Moten, aeronautical engineer appointed Director-General of ASIO 1988, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals, National Library of Australia.
  3. R. Sutton, 'Moten, Murray John (1899–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 429–430
  4. Cain, Frank (1993). "The right to know: ASIO, historians and the Australian Parliament". Intelligence and National Security (Taylor & Francis) 8 (1): 87–101. doi:10.1080/02684529308432193.
Government offices
Preceded by
Alan Wrigley
Director-General of Security
1988–1992
Succeeded by
David Sadleir