John Moten

John Michael Moten (8 December 1933[1] – 9 July 2022) was an Australian aeronautical engineer.

[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.