James Bond he certainly is not but Mark Arbib has been exposed by Wikileaks as a regular source for US Intelligence on the internal workings of the Labor party and also of course of the Government. Unfortunately (for Labor) he isn't going to be stood up agaionst a wall offered a mobile phone to make a last call to knife a colleague in the back, and then shot.
He'll still be around stuffing things up for years to come.
The CIA thing is no big deal of course. They gather information from sources all over the place as they analyse important developments and explain what they mean to Washington. 25 years ago I was often contacted by the Labor attache from the US embassy and asked for my take on developments in the unions. I'm sure he was talking to quite a few people and then making allowances for the myriad of personal agendas.
I'd be very worried if they are listening to closely to Arbib though. It's also worrying that Arbib who with Bitar was heavily implicated in the political assasinations of Beazley and Rudd is whispering in the ears of US Intelligence. Are they also whispering back with advice or instructions. One could develop some really hot conspiracy theories out of this, and it is after all the silly season....
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