The Spy Catchers Official History Of Asio 1949-1963

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Allen And Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 710 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. Volume 1

Publishers Description: With unprecedented access to their hitherto sealed records, this is the first volume of a remarkable official history of ASIOa revealing and authoritative account of the early years of Australias national security intelligence service. This book is the winner of the St Ermins Hotel (London) Intelligence Book of the Year Award 2015. 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 Australias domestic intelligence organization, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIOs 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. The Spy Catchers is the first of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO.

ISBN: 9781743319666