Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) |
Contents |
Cover -- Praise -- Title page -- Copyright info -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part 1 The Children -- 1 Keeping it in the Family -- 2 Learning to be Invisible -- 3 I Spy with My Little Eye -- 4 Secrets in a Box -- 5 Rules -- 6 Flying -- Part 2 Sue-Ellen -- 7 The Girl Who Came to Stay -- 8 Oysters -- 9 Bastard Child -- 10 Uneaten Cakes -- 11 Double Dealing -- 12 The Petrovs -- 13 Joan Works Undercover -- 14 Mystery Woman -- 15 Sue-Ellen's Secret Life -- 16 ASIO Answers the Call -- Part 3 The Family -- 17 The Deep Pleasure of Facts -- 18 The Deceptions of Memory |
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19 The Fix-It Man -- 20 The Price They Paid -- 21 Still Working -- Epilogue -- Picture Section -- Acknowledgements |
Summary |
Growing up in the 1950s, the three Doherty children were trained by their parents to memorise car number plates, to spot unusual behaviour on the street, and most important of all, to avoid drawing attention to themselves. The children became unwitting foot soldiers in Australia's battle against Soviet infiltration in the Cold War. They attended political rallies, stood watch on houses owned by communist sympathisers, and infiltrated the UFO Society. In 1956 the Doherty family went on a beach holiday with Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov, the famous Soviet defectors, who were hiding from Soviet assassins. Dudley and Joan Doherty swore their children to secrecy, and for decades, they didn't even discuss among themselves the work they did for ASIO. With My Little Eye is a poignant and very funny account of a peculiar childhood in 1950s suburban Australia |
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The very funny true story of three children recruited by their parents to work for ASIO in the 1950s |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Australian Security Intelligence Organization -- History
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SUBJECT |
Australian Security Intelligence Organization fast |
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Families -- Australia
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Spies -- Australia -- Case studies
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Children of spies -- Australia -- Case studies
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Espionage -- Australia -- History -- 20th century
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Children of spies
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Espionage
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Families
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Spies
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Australia
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Case studies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
1761061151 |
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9781761061158 |
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