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Jennings highlights an illustrative case shared by Australian Security Agency head Mike Burgess involving espionage at a secret horticultural facility several years ago. During an official visit by foreign delegates, one individual sneaked into a restricted lab and took photographs of rare fruit trees, later smuggling away parts of the plants themselves. This act of espionage potentially enabled foreign scientists to reverse engineer two decades of Australian research, especially on fruit cultivation, and replicate Australian innovations.