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Terrorism & intelligence in Australia : a history of ASIO and national surveillance / Frank Cain.

Title
Terrorism & intelligence in Australia : a history of ASIO and national surveillance / Frank Cain.
Author
Cain, Frank, 1931-
Publication
North Melbourne, Vic : Australian Scholarly Pub., 2008

Holdings

Details

Description
xi, 362 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Terrorism and intelligence in Australia
Subject
  • Australian Security Intelligence Organization > History
  • Australien > Security Intelligence Organization
  • Bekämpfung
  • Intelligence service > Australia > History
  • Internal security > Australia > History
  • National security > Australia > History
  • Terrorism > Government policy > Australia
  • Terrorismus
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-355) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Surveillance developments during the First World War -- Expansion of political surveillance: Communists, Nazis and the Second World War -- Venona and the Second World War -- Role of Britain and America in the formation of ASIO -- ASIO, Menzies and the Cold War -- ASIO and the Petrov affair -- Terrorism, ASIO and the Whitlam years -- ASIO's expansion of surveillance powers and the Liberal Party connections -- Intelligence agencies, terrorism and the impact of 9/11 on Australia -- Australia and the war in Iraq -- Catching and jailing Australia's terrorists -- Political limits of terrorism and political surveillance.
ISBN
  • 9781921509322 (pbk.)
  • 1921509325 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2009396550