John Moten

John Moten
8th Director-General of Security
In office 8 October 1988 â€“ 10 January 1992
Prime Minister	Bob Hawke Paul Keating
Preceded by	Alan Wrigley
Succeeded by	David Sadleir
Personal details
Born	John Michael Moten 8 December 1933 Adelaide, South Australia
Nationality	Australian
Relations	Murray Moten (father)
Alma mater	University of Adelaide University of Sydney
Occupation	Aeronautical engineer

John Michael Moten (born 8 December 1933)^[1] is an Australian aeronautical engineer. From 1988 to 1992, he was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).^[2] He was the son of Brigadier Murray Moten, a senior Australian Army officer.^[3]

Moten was not a career intelligence officer. He had worked at the Department of Defence, where he was Deputy Secretary of the Strategic and Intelligence Section when he accepted the position of ASIO's Director-General. He retired in January 1992, three years into his five-year term. The reasons for his early retirement were never given.^[4]

References

1. Who's Who in Australia. Colorgravure Publications. 2006.
2. Biographical cuttings on John Michael Moten, aeronautical engineer appointed Director-General of ASIO 1988, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals, National Library of Australia.
3. R. Sutton, 'Moten, Murray John (1899–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 429–430
4. Cain, Frank (1993). "The right to know: ASIO, historians and the Australian Parliament". Intelligence and National Security (Taylor & Francis) 8 (1): 87–101. doi:10.1080/02684529308432193.