雷克斯·帕特里克多年来一直试图揭露与东帝汶窃听丑闻相关的历史文件，他最新的努力正是在此背景下展开的。
Rex Patrick’s latest push to reveal historical documents related to the Timor-Leste bugging scandal comes after years of attempts.
摄影：米克·齐卡斯/澳大利亚联合通讯社 一场旨在查明澳大利亚间谍是否曾对东帝汶实施窃听、以在敏感的石油和天然气谈判中占据上风的行动，在前参议员雷克斯·帕特里克取得一项关键胜利后，将稍稍减少一些保密色彩。
Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP A campaign to uncover any documents relating to whether Australian spies bugged Timor-Leste to gain the upper hand in sensitive oil and gas negotiations will be a little less secret after a critical win by the former senator Rex Patrick.
这位由政客转型而来的透明度倡导者正试图最终揭开2004年那次绝密任务的面纱——多年后，一名前间谍和一名前司法部长试图在海牙提起诉讼，使这一任务演变为公开丑闻。但澳大利亚政府坚持其“格洛马回应”——既不确认也不否认窃听曾经发生，也不确认也不否认存在任何相关文件。
The politician turned transparency advocate is trying to finally lift the lid on the top-secret mission in 2004 that became a public scandal years later after an ex-spy and a former attorney general attempted to mount a case in The Hague But the Australian government stands by its Glomar response – to neither confirm nor deny first that the bugging took place and second that any relevant documents exist.
周五，行政复审法庭（ART）作出有利于帕特里克的裁决，迫使联邦政府将11月底为期三天听证会中的非机密部分公开举行。
On Friday, the administrative review tribunal (ART) ruled in Patrick’s favour, forcing the commonwealth to hold unclassified parts of the three-day hearing in late November in public.
政府律师辩称，整个事件极为敏感，以至于连听证会中向公众开放的部分也应闭门进行，以防有人不慎说出不该说的话。
Government lawyers argued the whole saga is so sensitive that even sections of the hearing open to the public should remain behind closed doors in case someone accidentally says something they shouldn’t.
帕特里克对《卫报》澳大利亚版表示，这种情况是一场闹剧，并称这起窃听丑闻是“澳大利亚间谍史上最公开的秘密”，或许也是全世界最公开的秘密。
Patrick told Guardian Australia the situation was a farce, arguing the bugging scandal is the “most open secret in the history of Australian spying”, maybe even the world.
一场“风险极高”的博弈 帕特里克试图进一步了解此事的努力，始于申请获取澳大利亚国家档案馆保存的2004年内阁文件。
A ‘very high-stakes’ game Patrick’s bid to gain further insight into the affair began with a request for cabinet documents from 2004 held by the National Archives of Australia.
澳大利亚政府以及负责机构澳大利亚秘密情报局（Asis）的立场仍然是：任何此类文件都不能公开确认或否认存在。
The Australian government’s position, along with the responsible agency, the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (Asis), remains that any such documents cannot be publicly confirmed or denied.
Asis主张，仅这些记录本身就可能损害国家安全以及澳大利亚与其他国家的关系。
Asis contends that alone the records could undermine national security and Australia’s standings with other countries.
这些文件将涉及澳大利亚在2002年东帝汶正式从印度尼西亚独立后，就其在帝汶海可维持控制多少区域所制定的战略。
The documents would relate to Australia’s strategy for settling how much of the Timor Sea it could maintain control over after Timor-Leste officially gained independence from Indonesia in 2002.
谈判确定了两国对大日出气田的共同控制权，该气田的资源估值估计超过500亿美元。
The negotiations determined the countries’ shared control over the Greater Sunrise gasfields, which hold resources estimated to be worth more than $50bn.
帕特里克在周五的胜诉意味着，政府至少部分关于为何不能公开2004年监听事件细节的辩护将在公开场合进行听证——该监听事件发生在澳大利亚与这个贫困国家达成一项对澳方商业有利的协议之前。
Patrick’s win on Friday means at least some of the government’s defence over why it cannot publicly reveal details of the 2004 bugging – which preceded to a commercially favourable agreement for Australia against the impoverished nation – will be heard in public.
上周，行政上诉法庭（ART）举行了一场初步听证会，裁定部分听证是否应保持公开。档案馆的律师主张，此事极为敏感，以至于即使是对公众开放的听证部分也应闭门进行，以防有人不慎说出不该说的话。
At a preliminary ART hearing last week to rule on whether part of the hearings should remain open, lawyers for the archives argued the matter is so sensitive that even sections of the hearing open to the public should remain behind closed doors in case someone accidentally says something they shouldn’t.
听证会的部分环节本就将闭门进行，以便讨论绝密细节，但联邦政府曾主张，公开听证的部分也应在保密状态下进行辩论。
Parts of the hearing will already remain closed so top-secret details can be debated, but the commonwealth had argued the open hearings should also be debated in secret.
联邦政府曾提议禁止媒体和公众进入公开听证会，但可在国家外国情报机构仔细审查后查看文字记录。这一提议未获成功。
The commonwealth unsuccessfully proposed the media and the public should be barred from the open hearings but would be able to view a transcript after careful review by the nation’s foreign intelligence agency.
上周四，副首席律师贾斯汀·戴维森主张，此事利害关系“非常重大”，几乎不可能降低情报官员泄露不该泄露信息的风险。“坦率地说，我也难免会犯错，”戴维森说。
The deputy chief solicitor, Justin Davidson, argued last Thursday the stakes are “very high” and it would be nearly impossible to mitigate the risk of an intelligence official revealing something they shouldn’t. “I’m not, frankly, beyond making a mistake,” Davidson said.
澳大利亚秘密情报局（Asis）副局长尤恩·麦克米伦和外交与贸易部（Dfat）副部长米歇尔·陈将在11月下旬案件全面审理时提供证词。
Ewan McMillan, an Asis deputy director general, and Michelle Chan, a deputy secretary at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Dfat), will offer their testimonies in late November when the case is heard in full.
戴维森曾主张，他们在公开听证中分享的非机密细节可能“对公众有吸引力”，但不一定符合公共利益。
Davidson had argued the unclassified details they share in an open hearing might be “interesting to the public” but not necessarily in the public interest.
周五，行政复审法庭（ART）副庭长彼得·布里顿-琼斯作出了不利于联邦政府的裁决，指出官员们“资质深厚、经验丰富”，不至于在公开论坛上泄露国家机密。“无意中披露受认证材料的风险微乎其微，”他在裁决中写道。
On Friday, the ART deputy president Peter Britten-Jones ruled against the commonwealth, noting officials were “highly qualified and experienced” enough not to let national secrets slip in an open forum. “The risk of an inadvertent disclosure of certificated material is negligible,” he wrote in his ruling.
帕特里克表示，这整场行政程序闹剧感觉就像是《王牌大贱谍》电影的翻版。
Patrick said the whole administrative saga felt like a replay of an Austin Powers movie.
“只有澳大利亚秘密情报局和外交贸易部还认为这次行动仍是秘密，”帕特里克说。
“Only Asis and Dfat think the operation is still a secret,” Patrick said.
“要不是事情如此严重，或者要不是纳税人在为那些替政府辩护的御用大律师、出庭律师和律师买单，这倒挺可笑的。”长达数十年的国际事件帕特里克最近一次推动公开历史文件——或至少公开这些文件的存在——是在多年尝试之后进行的。
“It’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious, or if the taxpayer wasn’t paying for the silk, barristers and lawyers arguing the government’s case.”A decades-long international affair Patrick’s latest push to reveal historical documents, or at least the existence of them, comes after years of attempts.
2021年，这位前参议员将档案馆告上法庭，原因是档案馆对一份2000年的内阁呈件进行了大量涂黑处理，该呈件概述了澳大利亚就帝汶海海上边界与其贫困盟友进行谈判交换的策略，以及一份相关会议纪要。
In 2021, the former senator took the archives to the tribunal for heavily redacting a cabinet submission from 2000 outlining Australia’s negotiating strategy for bartering with its impoverished ally on the Timor Sea maritime boundary and a related minute.
这些谈判发生在窃听丑闻四年前，对东帝汶和澳大利亚都至关重要，因为它们决定了大日升气田的准入权。
negotiations, which predated the bugging scandal by four years, were critical for Timor-Leste and Australia, because they dictated access to the Greater Sunrise gasfields.
该法庭后来公布了涂黑内容较少的文件，显示2000年内阁担心东帝汶的独立进程可能扰乱帝汶海石油和天然气储量的准入，因为澳大利亚此前与印度尼西亚达成的50/50收入分成协议将失效。
The tribunal later released the document with fewer redactions, which showed cabinet in 2000 was concerned that Timor-Leste’s independence process may disrupt access to the oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea, because Australia’s prior agreement with Indonesia for a 50/50 revenue split would be void.
窃听行动发生在2004年，当时澳大利亚秘密情报局特工在东帝汶政府关键办公室安装了监听设备，以探明东帝汶的底线、谈判策略以及内阁成员的不同观点。
The bugging operation occurred in 2004 when Asis operatives planted listening devices in key Timor-Leste government offices to uncover Timor-Leste’s bottom line, its negotiating tactics and the competing views of cabinet members.
2006年，澳大利亚最终获得了大日出气田50/50的权益分配，该气田位于达尔文西北450公里、东帝汶以南150公里处。这项协议对由伍德赛德牵头、寻求开发帝汶海的跨国合资企业来说是一大利好。
In 2006, Australia ended up securing a 50/50 split of the Greater Sunrise fields, positioned 450km north-west of Darwin and 150km south of Timor-Leste. The deal was a boon for the joint venture of multinationals led by Woodside, seeking to exploit the Timor Sea.
这起窃听行动后来被曝光：2013年，一名代号为“K证人”的澳大利亚秘密情报局前官员找到律师、前澳大利亚首都领地总检察长伯纳德·科拉里——科拉里同时也为东帝汶代理案件——告知其对该行动的了解。
The bugging operation was later revealed after a former Asis officer, known as Witness K, approached the lawyer and former ACT attorney general Bernard Collaery, who was also acting for Timor-Leste, in 2013 about his knowledge of the operation.
两人随后试图帮助东帝汶在海牙国际常设仲裁法院就海上边界协议提起的争端，但此后科拉里的办公室遭到搜查，“K证人”的护照被扣押。
Together, the two attempted to help Timor-Leste’s dispute against the maritime boundary agreement in The Hague, the international permanent court of arbitration, before Collaery’s office was raided and Witness K’s passport seized.
2017年，东帝汶以“建立信任措施”为由撤回了在海牙对澳大利亚的间谍指控，2018年双方签署了新的海上边界。
Timor-Leste withdrew its Australian espionage claims in The Hague in 2017 as a “confidence-building measure”, and a new maritime border was signed in 2018.
在2019年针对科拉里诉讼程序（该诉讼于2022年被撤销）的一份宣誓证词中，东帝汶总统若泽·拉莫斯-奥尔塔表示，他认为进一步披露该行动的细节不会给澳大利亚带来任何新的或额外的问题。
In a 2019 affidavit for the proceedings against Collaery, which were dropped in 2022, the Timor-Leste president, Jose Ramos-Horta, said he believed the disclosure of further details of the operation would not create any new or additional problems for Australia.
他说：“我相信，全面公开地披露2004年可能发生或未发生的事情，将使东帝汶与澳大利亚的关系受益，而不是受到损害。”
“I believe the relationship between Timor-Leste and Australia would benefit from, rather than be prejudiced by, a full and open disclosure in this of what may or may not have occurred in 2004,” he said.