John Michael Moten (8 December 1933 – 9 July 2022) was an Australian aeronautical engineer.
From 1988 to 1992, he was the Director-General of Security, the head of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).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. He was the son of Brigadier Murray Moten, a senior Australian Army officer.R. Sutton, 'Moten, Murray John (1899–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, Melbourne University Press, 2000, pp 429–430
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.
He died on 9 July 2022, aged 94.Canberra Times, Obituaries
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