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Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War (Large Print)

Paperback

Main Details

Title Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Phillip Deery
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:520
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLarge Print
RHYW Large Print
All Dates
Non-Fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780369395481
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher RHYW Large Print
Imprint ReadHowYouWant
NZ Release Date 27 December 2022
Publication Country Australia

Description

In the wake of the Second World War and the realisation that the Soviet Union had set up extensive espionage networks around the world, Australia responded by establishing its own spy-hunting agency: ASIO. By the 1950s its counterespionage activities were increasingly supplemented by attempts at countersubversion-identifying individuals and organisations suspected of activities that threatened national security. In doing so, it crossed the boundary from being a professional agency that collected, evaluated and transmitted intelligence, to a sometimes politicised but always shadowy presence, monitoring not just communists but also peace activists, scientists, academics, journalists and writers. The human cost of ASIOs monitoring of domestic dissenters is difficult to measure. It is only through recovering the hidden histories of personal damage inflicted by ASIO on both lawful protesters and, in some cases, its own agents, that the extent can be revealed. By interrogating the roles of eight individuals intimately involved in the conduct of the Cold War, and drawing on many years of research, Phillip Deerys Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War shines a powerful new light on the history of ASIO and raises important and enduring questions about the nature and impact of a states surveillance of its citizens.