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In December 1944 General Blamey, the Commander in Chief of the Australian Military Forces, was handed a file. It contained decrypted radio intercepts which proved that the Imperial Japanese Army was receiving top secret information - US and Australian war plans. Material that could lead to the death of Allied servicemen in the Pacific. The most likely source: Canberra. So began a hunt which took five years, involved the world's most secret intelligence organizations and resulted in the exposure of neutralization of a Soviet espionage network in Australia. "Breaking the Codes" is a story of international counter-esionage and signals intelligence. It tells of a secret war which sowed the seeds of suspicion in Moscow, Washington and London, seeds which flowered in the Cold War and led to the creation of ASIO. This ground-breaking study shows how signals intelligence helped uncover the KGB's activities in wartime Australia. It tells how counter-intelligence, through a partnership with MI5, provided the details - the names and roles of members of a network of informants run by the Soviet Embassy in Canberra. Australians who, whatever their motives, were playing a dangerous game as a World War was being fought and a Cold War was being born.

Table of Contents:
Figures and illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Preface 1 Introduction: Sigint and counter-espionage 2 The formation of the security service 3 The security service and the war with Japan 4 The development of Sigint in Australia 5 The first security leaks 6 General Blamey's letter 7 Moscow Centre and Soviet intelligence 8 The arrival of the Russians 9 Post-war security and intelligence in Australia 10 Operation Venona: breaking Russian codes 11 Venona and Soviet espionage in Australia 12 The Party and Clayton 13 The development of the KLOD group 14 Soviet espionage in External Affairs 15 Britain's Spycatchers come to Australia 16 ASIO and 'The Case' 17 The end of the Case 18 The importance of the Case Appendices

About the Author :
Professor Desmond Ball is the author of many studies of international intelligence including Pine Gap, The Ties that Bind and A Base for Debate. David Horner is a premier military historian and author of Blamey (forthcoming).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781864485783
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 488
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1864485787
  • Publisher Date: 01 Aug 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Australia'S KGB Network


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