Kalugin said on ABC television Thursday that at least one agent who channeled top-secret information to the KGB from inside the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization in the late 1970s was never discovered and "may be active to this day," Itar-Tass reported Friday.
"Well, it's not me," said one Australian embassy official. Another official said it was not embassy policy to comment on such matters.
Some speculated that Kalugin's remarks may have been timed to coincide with the upcoming release in Australia of his book, "Masterspy."
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