By John Blaxland
The Protest Years tells the interior tale of Australia's household intelligence employer from the final of the Menzies years to the dismissal of the Whitlam executive. With unrestricted entry to ASIO's inner filesand huge interviews with insiders, for the 1st time the situations surrounding the alleged position of ASIO within the loss of life of the Whitlam executive are printed and the query of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. the extreme history to the raid on ASIO headquarters in Melbourne by way of Attorney-General Lionel Murphy and Australia's efforts at countering Soviet bloc espionage, in addition to the delicate intelligence actions in South Vietnam, are exposed.
This is a ground-breaking political and social historical past of a few of Australia's so much turbulent years as visible throughout the mystery prism of ASIO.
The Protest Years is the second one of 3 volumes of The reliable heritage of ASIO.
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