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Author Ball, Desmond.

Title Breaking the codes : Australia's KGB network, 1944-1950 / Desmond Ball and David Horner
Published St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998

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Description xix, 468 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents 1. 'there are leakages of information from Australia' Sigint and Coutner-Espionage -- 2. 'one directing organisation is most urgent' The Formation of Australia's Security Service -- 3. 'our security system has failed to cope' The Security Service and the War with Japan -- 4. 'our only means of gauging Japanese espionage' The Development of Sigint in Australia -- 5. 'a grave threat to national security' The First Security Leaks -- 6. 'the source was the Soviet Minister' General Blamey's Letter -- 7. 'is there any great difference?' Moscow Centre and Soviet Intelligence -- 8. 'there was no mistaking the men' The Arrival of the Russians -- 9. 'the CIS has no standing' Postwar Security and Intelligence in Australia -- 10. 'reading dozens of messages' Operation Venona: Breaking Russian Codes -- 11. 'KLOD has communicated detailed information' Venona and Soviet Espionage in Australia -- 12. 'Wally Clayton was the great Pooh-Bah' The Communist Party and Clayton -- 13. 'absorbed with Russianism' The Development of the KLOD Group -- 14. 'his friends in the NOOK' Soviet Espionage in External Affairs -- 15. 'our enquiries have met with no success' Britain's Spycatchers Come to Australia -- 16. 'identification of the spymaster has been made' ASIO and 'the case' -- 17. 'a clincher for Clayton as a spy' The End of 'the case' -- 18. 'every counter-intelligence man's dream' The Importance of 'the case'
Analysis Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
Communist Party of Australia
Espionage
Federal issue
History
Intelligence services
KGB
National security
Soviet Union
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-444) and index
Notes Donation. ANU COOP 20120212 Brissenden collection, ANU Library
Signed by author 1 copy. ANU
Subject Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoĭ bezopasnosti -- History.
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennoÄ- bezopasnosti. -- History
Soviet Union. Komitet gosudarstvennofi bezopasnosti. -- History
Espionage, Soviet -- Australia -- History.
Intelligence service -- Australia.
National security -- Australia.
Secret service -- Australia.
Spies -- Australia.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009588 -- 1939-1945
Australia -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009588 -- 1945-1965
Australia -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009588
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Strategic aspects. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008690
Author Horner, D. M. (David Murray), 1948-
LC no. 98213209
ISBN 1864485787
Other Titles Australia's KGB network