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A Jewish Australian Army officer’s actions showed ‘divided loyalties’ the Administrative Review Tribunal has found.
An Australian Army officer with 19 years of service has been stripped of his security clearance in a decision upheld by the Administrative Review Tribunal, which found he had “divided loyalties” between Australia and Israel and posed an “unacceptable and avoidable risk to security” as a result.
The Tribunal accepted there was no evidence of acts of foreign interference or espionage as a result of the man’s actions but that something of that nature remained a “possibility we are satisfied is real and not so remote it should be discounted.”
The officer, referred to in the decision as HWMW, joined the Australian Defence Force in 2004. By 2010, he had achieved a security clearance known as negative vetting 2, giving him access to material classified as top secret.
Between 2014 and 2023, he was also a member of a community security group (CSG), a volunteer organisation that provides security and intelligence services to the Jewish community.
In 2016 and 2019, he travelled to Israel to participate in CSG training courses run by former members of Israeli…
