Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), Australia's domestic counterintelligence service, is responsible (in coordination with the Australian Federal Police) for preventing espionage by foreign powers, and is attempting to monitor and prevent terrorist and other political violence. It is approximately equivalent to Britain's counterintelligence service, MI5.

See also

• Australian Secret Intelligence Service
• Defence Signals Directorate
• Australian Federal Police (AFP)
• MI5
• FBI
• CIA
• CSIS Canadian Intelligence Service