Protest Years - The Official History of Asio, 1963-1975

Blaxland, John
Protest Years - The Official History of Asio, 1963-1975

Protest Years - The Official History of Asio, 1963-1975

Blaxland, John

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By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ASIO was concerned that protests were being orchestrated to foment revolution...The Protest Years tells the inside story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation from the last of the Menzies years to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. With unrestricted access to ASIO's internal files, and extensive interviews with insiders, for the first time the circumstances surrounding the alleged role of ASIO in the demise of the Whitlam Government are revealed, and the question of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. The extraordinary background to the raid on ASIO headquarters in Melbourne by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, and Australia's efforts at countering Soviet bloc espionage, as well as the sensitive intelligence activities in South Vietnam, are exposed...The Protest Years is the second of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO...'John Blaxland...provides a compelling account of ASIO's activities - glorious and otherwise - from the end of the Menzies era through to Whitlam's dismissal.
' Laura Tingle, Australian Financial Review

Author:   Blaxland, John
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781760294182


Pages:   592
Publication Date:   28 September 2016
Bind Format:   Paperback
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By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War, and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ASIO was concerned that protests were being orchestrated to foment revolution...The Protest Years tells the inside story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation from the last of the Menzies years to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. With unrestricted access to ASIO's internal files, and extensive interviews with insiders, for the first time the circumstances surrounding the alleged role of ASIO in the demise of the Whitlam Government are revealed, and the question of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. The extraordinary background to the raid on ASIO headquarters in Melbourne by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy, and Australia's efforts at countering Soviet bloc espionage, as well as the sensitive intelligence activities in South Vietnam, are exposed...The Protest Years is the second of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO...'John Blaxland...provides a compelling account of ASIO's activities - glorious and otherwise - from the end of the Menzies era through to Whitlam's dismissal.
' Laura Tingle, Australian Financial Review

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Author:   Blaxland, John
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781760294182


Pages:   592
Publication Date:   28 September 2016
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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