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Australia's Spies and Their Secrets.
by McKnight, David
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- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1863736611
- ISBN 13
- 9781863736619
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1994. Paperback octavo, good condition, black & white photos centre spread, inner hinge little split (all pages firm), spine little creased, some edgewear covers, owner's rubber stamp. 350 pp. David McKnight relates the inside story of the rise and fall of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the premier Australian spy body. His research is based on thousands of documents never before revealed, along with interviews with over 30 former ASIO officers, as well as many of those spied upon. He exposes the extensive files on ordinary Australians. He throws new light on the Petrov Royal Commission, on ASIO links to the leaders of the NSW branch of the ALP, and why ASIO thiought Lionel Murphy might be a KGB spy. The author is a journalism lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26358
- Title
- Australia's Spies and Their Secrets.
- Author
- McKnight, David
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1863736611
- ISBN 13
- 9781863736619
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, St Leonards
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- australian government, espionage, spying, spies
- Bookseller catalogs
- MILITARY & ESPIONAGE;
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Annandale, New South Wales
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