The spy catchers : the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963, Volume I
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The spy catchers : the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963, Volume I
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- The spy catchers : the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963, Volume I
- Title remainder
- the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963
- Title number
- Volume I
- Statement of responsibility
- David Horner
- Title variation
- Spy catchers
- Title variation remainder
- the official history of ASIO, 1949-1963
- Subject
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- trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Australian Security Intelligence Organization -- History
- trueCommunism -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- trueEspionage -- Australia
- Espionage, Soviet -- Australia
- trueIntelligence service -- Australia
- trueIntelligence service -- Australia -- History
- Internal security -- Australia
- trueAustralia -- History -- 20th century
- trueNational security -- Australia
- trueNational security -- Australia -- History
- Petrov, Evdokia, 1914-2002
- Petrov, Vladimir MikhaĉİĴovich, 1907-1991
- truePolitical parties -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- trueSecret service -- Australia -- History
- trueSubversive activities -- Australia
- trueInternal security -- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Politics and goverment -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to catch spies. In the late 1940s, the top secret Venona program revealed details of a Soviet spy ring in Australia, supported by leading Australian communists. David Horner outlines the tactics ASIO used in counter-espionage, from embassy bugging to surveillance of local suspects. His research sheds new light on the Petrov Affair, and details incidents and activities that have never been revealed before. This authoritative and ground-breaking account overturns many myths about ASIO, and offers new insights into broader Australian politics and society in the fraught years of the Cold War
- Award
- Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, 2015.
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Dewey number
- 327.1294
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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