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In honour of the news that the NZSIS illegally spied on the Iranian Embassy and Indian High Commission for the CIA, here's a brief history of other things NZ's spy agencies have done in your name:
Unlawfully spied on journalist Nicky Hager on behalf of the NZDF when Hager was investigating NZ's role in Afghanistan and Iraq https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/400707/sis-told-to-apologise-to-nicky-hager
Unlawfully broke into the home of free trade activist Aziz Choudry in 1996 — and were caught doing so by academic David Small, whose own home was broken into by police a week later https://teara.govt.nz/en/intelligence-services/page-3
Engaged in mass internet surveillance for the NSA of NZ's small Pacific neighbours, including Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji, Niue and the Cook Islands https://theintercept.com/2015/03/04/new-zealand-gcsb-surveillance-waihopai-xkeyscore/
Fed politically damaging material about then Labour leader Phil Goff to Whale Oil on behalf of John Key's office in 2011 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11363842
Spied on unions, students, iwi, leftists, anti-nuclear activists, anti-Springbok tour activists and the children of activists during the Cold War https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11451304
Provided Robert Muldoon with an (incorrect) list of "subversives" and "radicals" involved in the anti-Springbok movement in 1981, which Muldoon publicly released https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/34074/muldoons-list-of-subversives-1981
Monitored email and internet traffic of Trade Minister Tim Groser's rivals for the role of director-general of the WTO https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11879510
Royally messed up when an SIS officer left a suitcase outside a journalist's house in 1981 containing a Penthouse magazine, three cold meat pies and notes of a dinner party conversation hosted by a German diplomat https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/spy-agency-documents-left-in-cafe-toilets/
Wrongly accused asylum seeker and former Algerian MP Ahmed Zaoui of being a terrorist, leading to his imprisonment https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709/S00240.htm
Developed a plan to conduct mass surveillance of NZers, which was only canned when John Key learnt that the plan was likely to become public through the Snowden leaks https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11948852
Received information obtained by the CIA using torture in Afghanistan (and didn't ask questions about it) https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/398398/nz-spies-received-intelligence-from-tortured-detainees-watchdog
Spied on a senior Labour MP in the 80s and 90s, even though he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency as chair of the justice select committee https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/06/senior-labour-mp-richard-northey-spied-on-by-sis.html
Failed to notice that suspected Mossad agents were in NZ purchasing NZ passports https://www.nzherald.co.nz/israeli-spy-case/news/article.cfm?c_id=606&objectid=10352280
Failed to prevent the Trades' Hall bombing in 1984, when unionist Ernie Abbott was killed by a bomb on Vivian St in Wellington https://nzhistory.govt.nz/wellington-trades-hall-bombing
Failed to prevent French state terrorists bombing the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, killing Fernando Pereira https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/nuclear-free-new-zealand/rainbow-warrior
Failed to prevent the March 15 terrorist attacks by focusing on Islamic rather than right wing extremism https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/385173/no-mention-of-right-wing-extremist-threats-in-10-years-of-gcsb-and-sis-public-docs
Here's @GuyonEspiner and John Daniell's excellent piece on the Indian and Iranian Embassy break-ins: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/420210/nz-broke-into-embassies-for-cia-and-mi6
Another one for the list: https://twitter.com/hamish_keith/status/1278518595140509696?s=21 https://twitter.com/hamish_keith/status/1278518595140509696
