Reds Under the Bed: The Security Service's Interest in My Family

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Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 23, 3 (2017)

Author(s) Michael Komesaroff AbstractFor most of the last century Australia's counterintelligence organisations monitored the activities of people and organisations it believed were controlled or influenced by the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). As a result of this surveillance, the security services maintained a vast library of files on Australian citizens (as well as residents who were not citizens), the overwhelming majority of whom were never a threat to the country's security. In records released by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) I have learned that the Organisation (or its predecessors) kept files on at least seven members of my family. All of the seven were politically active left-of-centre citizens, with four of the seven being people who were involved with organisations or activities that were either pro-Zionist or opposed to antisemitism
Year2017
Pages418-476