This work tells the inside story of the creation, rise and fall of ASIO - Australia's premier spy organization. Based on thousands of documents, and interviews with over 40 former ASIO officers, it outlines the secret dimension to Australia's politics and history since 1945. The book rewrites the known history of the Petrov Royal Commission and the role of Menzies and Evatt; it outlines actual instances of genuine espionage in Australia in the 1960s; it tells how a gigantic system of security dossiers on ordinary Australians was built up; and tells the extraordinary story of ASIO and the Whitlam Government.
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Australia's transposed parania from McCathism,
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Yes, someone has read this. Probably only of interest to us down here, but it does contain some truisms that was America in the 1950's. The book is written from transcripts and reports that were only recently released from the Secrecy Act (ie: 25 years after). No great surprises, but it does show the level of paranoia shown in Australia that was sweeping the country in refection from the USA's MaCarthism in the 50's. It also shows how the US and UK intelligence agencies did not trust us because of leaks. Interestingly enough, they were later revealed to have come from the UK's MI6 'advisers' given to us. Twenty years on, we can look back at how gullible we were, and how we were too isolated to take any great part in the northern hemisphere's cold war.
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