Cold War
Special Collections Research Guide
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This guide is an introduction to UNSW Special Collections manuscript and rare book sources relating to the Cold War, including material illustrating the role of technology in the conflict.
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Manuscript Collections
MSS 75 – Papers of Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Mackay Burrell
Letter from F.H. Kelly, The Bristol Aeroplane Company Limited, 27 February 1953, including
photograph taken when three Bristol Sycamore MK50 aircraft were delivered to HMAS Vengeance at Weymouth. [The Bristol Sycamore was one of the first production helicopters to be developed in the post-World War 2 period]
MSS 126 – Papers of the Doug Robertson Maritime and Naval History Collection
A comprehensive collection of notebooks, research notes, newspaper clippings and plans – together with an extended sequence of 70,000 photographs and slides - compiled and collected by Australian ship expert and naval historian, Doug Robertson (1923-1984).
Box 10/Folder 51 – Notebook entitled 'United States Navy - submarines', c. 1893-1960, including pamphlet/diagram of USS Segundo SS-398 submarine which was modernised in 1951; also newspaper cutting/image re USS Thresher, the first nuclear-powered US submarine: [‘Created to find and destroy Soviet submarines, Thresher was the fastest and quietest submarine of the day. She also had the most advanced weapons system, with passive and active sonar, that could detect vessels at unprecedented range and launchers for the US Navy's newest anti-submarine missile, the SUBROC.’]; Box 28/Folder 155 – Lists of ships, notes and newspaper clippings entitled 'Rome', 'Roumania', 'Russia', 'Russia (Czarist)', including clipping of a newly launched Soviet ship; Box 43/Folder 251 – Promotional material, notes and newspaper clippings on HMCS Provider and USSR, 1972, including brochures with photographs, articles re Soviet ships; Box 27/Folder 151 – Lists of ships and newspaper clippings entitled 'Morocco', 'Muscat', 'Naples', 'NATO', including NATO pamphlet with images of weapons, clippings (one with diagram of arms holdings in Europe); Box 39/Folder 225 – Notes and newspaper clippings on submarines, Australian Navy (RAN), ASR's, 1914-1980; Box 45/Folder 262 – Promotional material, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings on NSW ferries, Australian coast guards, RN submarines and tugs [Australian], 1789-1970; Box 56/Folder 352 – Promotional material for HMAS Perth, HMAS Queenborough, HMAS Stalwart, HMAS Stuart, HMA Submarine brochures, Support ships, Survey ships, and HMAS Swan; Boxes 95-262: Photographs and slides of Australian and overseas ships arranged by name of ship [a comprehensive selection of vessel images, including examples of many state of the art ships of their day]; Othertype Map Cabinet 3/Drawer 3/Oversize 1-7: Detailed ships plans, including:
HMAS Warramunga (1943), HMAS Perth (1968), HMAS Sydney (1940)
Othertype Map Cabinet 3/Drawer 3/Oversize 8-15 Ships plans, including:
Armament cross-sections – short range (1958), medium range (1959)
MSS 187 – Papers of Damien Fenton
Box 8/Folders 56-62 – Photocopies of archival primary sources, 1958-1968, including Public Records Office, Kew; Boxes 9-11 – Notes and photocopies of archival primary sources from National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, DC, USA, 1958-1973
MSS 190 – Papers of Michael Richardson
Journalist and photographer, Michael Richardson was the Southeast Asia correspondent for The Age in the 1970s, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore until 2009. His archive includes important primary sources on East Timor’s political history and conflict, including photographs of the Declaration of Independence on 28 November 1975.
Box 12/Folder 78 – East Timor oil funds (1999-2008), including articles: ‘Russia needs a stabilisation fund’ (3p.); ‘Russia pondering ways of spending oil revenues’ (3p.)
MSS 196 - Papers of Sir Arthur Tange
Former Secretary of the Department of Defence 1970-1979 and External Affairs 1954-1965.
Box 1/Folder 1 – Typescripts: ‘Defence and Australian society of the late 20th century’; ‘The reorganisation of the defence group of departments - reflections ten years on’
MSS 231 – Papers of Sir General John Wilton
Wilton was a senior commander in the Australian Army who served as Chief of the General Staff (CGS) from 1963 until 1966, and as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CCOSC), forerunner of the role of Australia's Chief of the Defence Force, from 1966 until 1970. In this role he had overall responsibility for Australia's forces in Vietnam, and worked to achieve an integrated defence organisation, including a tri-services academy, a joint intelligence group, and the amalgamation of separate government departments for the Army, Navy and Air Force. He served as Consul-General in New York from 1973 to 1975.
Box 5/Folder 2 – Photo album (b&w): Unison 65 (the Commonwealth Inter-Service Study, Cranwell, England) including images of RAF flying & military equipment (planes, missiles etc) display; Folder 3-Photo albums (b&w): Southeast Asia Treaty Organisation, Military Advisers (2 albums); Box 6 – Photo album (b&w): [b&w photos from the 1930s to the 1990s], including interesting images of Wilton’s visit to US, 1962; Box 7 – Photo album (b&w): Thirteenth Military Advisers Conference, SEATO, 15-18 September, 1960
MSS 284 – Papers of Histories of Commissioned Ships in the Royal Australian Navy
Photocopy and carbon typescript drafts relating to Commissioned Ships serving in the Royal Australian Navy. The collection provides technical ship data together with a brief service history of between one to seventeen pages for each vessel from launching to disposal from 1866 to 1983. This information was collected for The Australasian Military History Database (MIHILIST), produced by the Academy Library, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
Examples: Box 7/Folder 234 HMS Warrnambool (I); Box 7/Folder 235 HMAS Warrego (I); Box 7/Folder 236 HMAS Warrego (II); Box 7/Folder 237 HMAS Watcher; Box 7/Folder 238 HMAS Waterhen
MSS 321 – Papers of Frank Cain
Historian and former academic at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, specialising in intelligence, defence and foreign policy history and strategic studies, including the Cold War. Includes source materials for Cain’s ASIO: an unofficial history (Richmond, Vic: Spectrum, 1994) and Economic statecraft during the Cold War: European responses to the US trade embargo (London: Routledge, 2007).
Box 1/Folder 2 – including copied papers on establishment of ASIO, recruitment of spies from Australian military forces, Cabinet memo on long range weapons projects, Combe-Ivanov report documents (c1983), relating to the Australian-Soviet spy scandal; Box 1/Folder 3 – including Frank Cain, ‘Missiles and Mistrust: US Intelligence Responses to British and Australian Missile Research’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘ASIO and the Australian Labour Movement – An Historical Perspective’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘An Aspect of Post-War Australian Relations with the UK and the US: Missiles, Spies and Disharmony’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘An Administrative History of Political Surveillance in Australia 1916-1983’ (undated); Frank Cain, ‘From Alliance to Enmity: USA Reaction to Australian Missile Technology’ (1986); Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, Conference on Security and Intelligence Needs for the 1990s: A Canadian Perspective (1989); Box 1/Folder 4 – including clippings documenting the Petrov affair; Box 3/Folder 12 – ‘W17’= copied National Archives (United States) and National Archives of Australia records relating to CoCoM (Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) on export of computers and advanced technology, including sale of cryogenics, superconductors, Trident aeroplanes, Sigma-5 computer systems, microwave electronics etc; Box 13/Folder 59 – file ‘Moscow Letters’ (1952) and ‘Analysis of Moscow letters etc’, ie. translations of these relating to the Petrov affair, including detailed intelligence reports in English and Russian and copies of other documents associated with the scandal [material is very evocative of USSR-Australia Cold War tensions at the time]
MSS 336 – Richard Northam – Plan cabinet
This collection contains photographs, plans, cards, leaflets, booklets and miscellaneous on US and British aircrafts, mostly from WWII and the 1950-60s, including coloured posters of fighter jets and cross-section plan of Mosquito bomber [‘The de Havilland Mosquito was a British light bomber that served in many roles during and after the Second World War. Mosquito-equipped squadrons performed medium bomber, reconnaissance, tactical strike, anti-submarine warfare and shipping attack and night fighter duties, both defensive and offensive.’]
MSS 346 – Papers of Herbert S. Johnson
Box 1/Folder 1 – including Correspondence to Dr Frank Cain, 9 November, 1995; Correspondence to Mark Godfrey (US News and World Report), 3 March, 1995; Hiroshima Witness - an American Combat Infantry Soldier’s Story by Herbert Johnson, 1994 with added note to Dr Cain (Includes ‘Illustrations and Maps’).
MSS 355 – Papers of John McCarthy
Comprising photocopies of Australian government documents relating to World War II and research material for various publications by the historian and academic John McCarthy.
Box 13/Folder 68 – Photocopies of Australian government documents: Russia, November 1941-February 1946, including discussion of proposed post-war military assistance as offered by Joseph Stalin
MSS 366 – Papers of John Coates
During his long and distinguished military career Coates held various staff and command appointments both in Australia and overseas, including Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, 1983, Head of the Australian Defence Staff, Washington, 1984-1987, Assistant Chief Defence Force (Policy), 1987-1989 and Chief of the General Staff, Australian Army, 1990-1992. After retirement, he became a Visiting Fellow at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra.
Box 12/Folder 65 – including WMD commission report: final report of the commission on the intelligence capabilities of the United States regarding weapons of mass destruction, 42p. together with related correspondence, defence press release and printed web pages; Box 13/Folder 70 – Photocopied research material [for ‘An atlas of Australia’s wars’?]: Luttwak, E. N. The operational level of war. International Security, Vol. 5, no. 3, Winter 1980/81, pp.61-79; Snoke, E. R. (Comp.). (1985). The operation level of war. Kansas, US: Combat Studies Institute, 90p. (CSI Historical Bibliography no. 3); Box 13/Folder 71 – Printed research material [for ‘An atlas of Australia’s wars’?]: Herbert, P. H. (1988). Deciding what has to be done: General William E. DePuy and the 1976 edition of FM 100-5, operations; Kansas, US: Combat Studies Institute, 139p. (Leavenworth Papers no. 16); Box 13/Folder 72 – Photocopied/printed research material [for ‘An atlas of Australia’s wars’?]: including Friedman, N. The fifty-years’ war: conflict and strategy in the Cold War. RUSI Journal, June 2001, pp.20-25; Othertype Map Cabinet 4, Drawer 10/Oversize 6 – Enlarged copies of maps from ‘An atlas of Australia's wars’, by John Coates (South Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2006, 2nd ed.):
'The post-World War II period': 'The Malayan Emergency and confrontation', including: Map 131a 'Malaya: a guerrilla's paradise'; map 131b 'Main terrorist areas'; and map 131c 'Federal priority operations, 1955-59'
MSS 371 – Papers of Brian Beddie
Papers and reference material assembled by Professor Brian Beddie relating to Australian defence policy and administration, including coverage of the Cold War (1985-1991). A former diplomat, and academic specialising in international relations, Beddie was co-founder of the Politics Department at ANU, and foundation Professor in Government in the Faculty of Military Studies, Duntroon.
Including: Boxes 1-11: Foreign Affairs and Trade round-up, 1987-1989, including coverage of the Cold War, disarmament and peace movements; Boxes 12-22 – Defence news summary, 1982-1991, including coverage of the Cold War, disarmament and peace movements; Box 31/Folders 4-5 - Defence Committee minutes 1944-1951, CRSA2031
MSS 374 – Papers of Peter Hastings
Prominent Australian journalist Peter Hastings (1920-1990) was editor of the Bulletin (1962-64), and foreign affairs writer for the Australian (1966-70) and the Sydney Morning Herald (1970-74, 1976-90).
Box 12/Series 6/Folders 11-13 – press clippings on foreign relations and defence; Box 19/Series 10/Folders 1-2 – intelligence activities: press articles (including articles by Peter Hastings), papers, journals (topics: Australian Cryptographic Organisation, Special Wireless Unit, World War 2 intelligence activities, Defence Signals Division, ASIS, SIGINT; Box 19/Folder 3 – DSD book: Material relating to intelligence activities and proposal for history of Australian signal intelligence during World War 2 including: correspondence with DSD, book outline, reference material; Box 19/Folder 4 – Intelligence activities: Central Bureau intercept, Des Ball; Box 23/Series 13/Folder 1 – source material on nuclear weapons including telegrams, press clippings (+ schematic map of nuclear weapons in Europe), news service reports, and excerpts from published material
Rare Books
The security trap : arms race, militarism and disarmament : a concern for Christians
Jose-Antonio Viera Gallo
Rome : IDOC International, 1979
viii, 266 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (JX1974.7 .S43 1979)
Brighter than a thousand suns : the moral and political history of the atomic scientists
Robert Jungk 1913-
London : Gollancz in association with R. Hart-Davis, 1958
350 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (QC773 .J813 1958)
No immediate danger : prognosis for a radioactive earth
Rosalie Bertell 1929-
London : Women's Press, 1985
x, 435 p. : ill
Available at Canberra Special Collection (RA569 .B4 1985)
Nuclear handbook 1960. Part 1
‘Restricted’; Cover title.; ‘Notified in AAOs for 30th April, 1960’; ‘Issued by command of the Military Board’
Canberra : Army, 1960
159 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (U264 .N82 1960)
Military communications
Cointrin, Switzerland : Interavia Data, 1988
2 v.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA940 .M53 1983)
The nuclear barons
Peter Pringle
James Spigelman 1946-
London : Sphere, 1983
578 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (QC792.7 .P74 1983)
Modelling military conflict : a conceptual model
Gregory Kemp Whymark
D. L Hoffman (David L.)
Canberra, A.C.T : University College, The University of New South Wales, Dept. of Computer Science, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1990
25 leaves
Available at Canberra Special Collection (U167 .W59 1990)
Australian army manual of land warfare
Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : Headquarters Training Command, 1977-
8 v.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UD 155 .A8 1977)
What is science for?
Bernard Dixon
Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1976
284 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (Q172.5 .D58 1976)
An Introduction to guided weapons
London : War Office, 1957
52 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG630 .I57 1957)
Australia's ships of war
John Bastock
Sydney : Angus & Robertson, 1975
xvii, 414p : ill.
Limited edition 750 copies
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VA713.B37)
Navy Australia, an illustrated history
George Odgers
Frenchs Forest, N.S.W : Child & Associates, 1989
1 v.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VA713.O34 1989)
The Royal Australian Navy: the first seventy-five years
Phillip Belbin, Ross Gillett
Brookvale, N.S.W : Child & Henry, 1986
xiii, 278 p. : ill. (some col.)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio VA713.B45 1986)
Defence in transition : Australian defence policy and the role of air power 1945-1954
John Malcolm McCarthy 1933
Five year defence policy, 1947-1952 -- Sir Donald Hardman and the organisation of the RAAF 1952-1954 -- Australian air power and defence 1950-1954
Defence papers (Australian Defence Studies Centre) ; no. 2
Canberra : Australian Defence Studies Centre, 1991
1 v.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG735.A8 M3 1991)
USSR air fleet
John Stroud 1919-
Aeronautics, Military -- Soviet Union; Airplanes, Military
London : Published for the A.T.C. Gazette by the Rolls House Publishing Company, 194-?
1 sheet (fold)
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG635.R8 S7)
Anti-armour
Australia. Australian Army.
Tank warfare: ‘Notified in DI(A) SDMIN 20 series for 1985’; ‘Restricted’; ‘26 Jun 1985’; ‘26 Jun 1985’ -- Development of armour and armour defeating weapons -- --Historical background -- --Anti-armour ammunition -- --Armour types -- Weapon systems -- --Direct fire weapons -- --Artillery -- --Mines and obstacles -- Employment and fire control of anti-armour weapons -- --Siting -- --Pursuit -- Defensive operations -- --Area defence -- --Delaying defence
Training information bulletin ; no. 60
Sydney : Headquarters Training Command, 1985
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 21 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UF628 A9 1985)
The wild blue : the story of American airpower
John F Loosbrock
‘The best from Air Force Magazine’ -- Into the air -Kitty Hawk -Kill Devil Hill -War -Wright Brothers -- World War I -Spad -Fokker -Nieuport -Sopwiths -DH-4 -Air Corps -B17 -Rickenbacker -- Growing years -Eagle boats -PW-8 -7th Balloon Company -B-25 Stratofortress -Barling Bomber -Bombers against battleships -- Airpower comes of age -Navy flying boats -Day my parachute let me down -- War with Japan -Pearl Harbor -Midway -Henderson Tower -Action in the Solomons -Old 26 comes home -Piggy back on a bomb -China -Hump route -Military Air Transport Service -Balikpapan -Air in the Southwest Pacific -Miracle at Tacloban Strip -From Kansas to Tokyo -Our power to destroy War -- War with Germany -Sweeps over France -Hell over Bizerte -Air-ground cooperation in North Africa -Luftwaffe at bay -Attack on Ploesti -Air discipline -Eighth Air Force -Regensburg mission -Flying Fortress -Operation Overlord -B-17 -P-51 Mustangs -- Postwar Air Force -Berlin air lift -MiG alley -Science and airpower -- Korean War -Air war in Korea -UD X Corps -SAC B-29 -F-86 Sabrejet -F-51 Mustangs -MiG-15 -YAKS -Electronics -Great lessons of Korea -Germ warfare -- Modern Airpower -Air bridge to freedom -B-36 and the deterrent force -- Aerospace force -USAF doctrine and national policy -Purpose of war -Race for the ICBM -Nature of nuclear warfare -Survival in the nuclear age -Last flight of the X-2 -Air and space are indivisible -Challenge of the vertical frontier
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c1961
xix, 620 p.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG633 .W54 1961)
History of the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Steven L. Rearden 1946-
Contents: v. 1. The formative years, 1947-1950 / Steven L. Rearden -- v. 2. The test of war, 1950-1953 / Doris M. Condit -- VOL.1. -- 17 September 1947 -Strategy of containment -State of the armed forces -Road to unification -National security act of 1947 -- Unification act on trial -Progress and problems -1949 amendments -- Office of the secretary of defense -Forrestal's staff -Evolution of staff responsibilities -Changes under Johnson -Public relations front -- Staff agencies -Munitions board -Research and development board -Nonstatutory staff agencies -Military liaison committee -- OSD and the national security strucTure -National security council -Relations with the state department -National security resources board -Joint Chiefs of Staff -Intelligence community -- Challenge of communism: Greece, Turkey and Italy -- Israel and the Arab states -Partition of Palestine -First Arab-Israeli war -Air to Palestinian refugees -Arms shipments to the Middle East -Middle East oil and security -- Crisis in China -China aid act -Question of Formosa -- Spreading turmoil in Asia -Japan under U.S. occupation -Divided Korea -Emerging conflict in southeast Asia -- Berlin crisis -March war scare and its aftermath -Berlin under blockade -Specter of war reappears -Planning for a possible future blockade -- Military budget for fiscal year 1949: rearmament begins -Development of the supplemental -Congressional action on the regular military budget -- Military budget for fiscal year 1950: rearmament levels off -Budget policy and procedures -Forrestal's recommendations -Congressional action on the 1950 budget -- VOLUME ONE. The formative years 1947-1950 -- Military budget for fiscal year 1951: rearmement aborted -Eisenhower ‘special’ budget -- Roles and missions of the armed forces -Roots of controversy -Newport conference -Harmon report and WSEG R-1 -Supercarrier-B-36 controversy -- Atomic arsenal -Custody dispute -Policy on use of atomic weapons -Fission bomb production -H-Bomb decision -Acceleration of the H-bomb program -- North Atlantic alliance -Expanding military collaboration -North Atlantic treaty -Alliance organization May 1950 NAC meeting -- Foreign military assistance program -Temporary solutions: June to December 1948 -Development of program recommendations -MDAP: legislative base -- Renewed pressure for rearmament: NSC 68 -Origins and drafting of NSC 68 -NSC 68: a summary of contents -- VOLUME TWO -- Role of the Pentagon -Office of Secretary of Defense -- North Korean attack -Divided Korea -Combating aggression -Defeat of North Koreans -- Chinese entry into war -Possibility of UNC withdrawal -- Policy of limited war -Recall of MacArthur -- Fighting but talking -- Prisoners of war -Repatriation -Screening, violence, and propaganda -Recessing negotiations -- Formosa: Reversal of policy -- Japan: new relationship -- Indochina: threat in Southeast Asia -- Budget -Korea ---Second supplemental -Rearmament -Stretchout ---Fight in Congress -Last Truman -- NATO -Defense of Europe ---Deadlock and compromise ---Meetings -New members -Spain and Yugoslavia -Military command -Increasing strength ---German contribution -- Military assistance -Offshore procurement -- OSD nuclear responsibilities -Exchange of atomic information -Expanding atomic weapons stockpile -Thermonuclear test -- Search for greater efficiency -Manpower -Munitions Board -Research and Development Board -- Civil-military dimension -Lovett's report on unification
Washington, D.C. : Historical Office, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1984-<1988>
v. <1-2> : ill., ports., maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA23.6 .R43 1984)
Defence and Australian industry : proceedings of the First National Conference, World Congress Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 22 March 1995
Institution of Engineers, Australia.
Contents: Customer's perspective of naval shipbuilding in Australia -- Navy and industry -- Army and industry from the Army perspective -- RAAF and industry -- RAAF and industry - an aircraft manufacturer's perspective -- Naval engineering - keeping the ships afloat -- Integrated logistic support - the lessons & the future -- Role of the Royal Australian Electrical & Mechanical Engineers -- RAAF Engineering - keeping the weapons platforms in the sky -- Supporting the fleet - a contractor's view of meeting RAAF requirements
Journal of the Society of Military Engineering ; v. 1 no. 1
North Melbourne, Vic : Society of Military Engineering, 1995
viii, 122 p. : ill
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (UG 122 .I57 1995)
Spotlight on red spy rings : a factual statement of the evidence proving the existence of an international spy ring
Communism -- Australia; Espionage, Soviet; Espionage, Soviet -- Australia
Carnegie Vic. : Renown Press, 1954?
47 p. : ports. ; 22 cm
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU 113.5 .S65 S69 1954)
Petrov's 25,000 dollar story exploded : the devastating answer to Petrov's ‘Moscow gold’ story as presented to the Petrov Commission
L. L. Sharkey (Lawrence Louis), 1898-1967; E. F Hill (Edward Fowler), joint author.
Petrov, Vladimir Mikhaĭlovich, 1907-1991; Menzies, Robert, Sir, 1894-1978; Communist Party of Australia; Espionage, Soviet -- Australia; Australia -- Politics and government -- 1945-
Newtown : R. S. Thompson, 1955?
28 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU113.5 .S65 S5 1955)
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization : an unofficial history
Frank Cain 1931-
Australian Security Intelligence Organization -- History; Intelligence service -- Australia -- History; Internal security -- Australia; National security -- Australia
Acts of Parliament regarding ASIO -- Alexander, A.V. -- Antonov, Victor -- Attlee, Clement -- Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) -- --Compiles dossiers on people who later appear in Petrov papers -- --Early surveillance of Petrov -- --Milner's name associated with case -- --Rehearses Petrov's defection -- --Relationship to Ustashi groups -- --Murphy 'raid' and its aftermath -- --Role of Combe in KGB 'entrapment' -- --Second Hope royal commission -- --First ASIO act (1956) -- --Functioning of security appeals tribunal -- --Effects of second Hope royal commission -- Australian Security Intelligence Service (ASIS) -- Barbour, Peter -- Barnett, Tudor Harvey -- Beckett, Dr -- Bialoguski, Dr Michael -- Burton, Dr John -- --Contest with defense department -- Casey, Richard Gardner -- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) -- Chifley, Joseph Benedict -- Chiplin, Rex -- Clayton, Walter -- Combe, David -- Commonwealth investigation service -- Communist Party of Australia (CPA) -- Cowen, Myron M. -- Evatt, Dr Herbert Vere -- --Particular target of Ambassador Cowen -- --Counsel for trade unions -- --Barred from RCE -- Forrestal, James V. -- Gouzenko affair -- --Comparisons with Petrov affair -- Gray, Gordon -- Guided missiles -- Hawke, Robert J. -- Hill, Jim -- Hollis, Sir Roger -- --Presents blueprint for ASIO -- Hope, Mr Justice Bob -- Investigation Branch, Attorney-General's Department -- Ivanov, Valeri Nikolayevich -- Joint Chiefs of Staff -- Jones, Harold Edward -- KGB (Committee of state security) -- Latham, John Greig -- Legge, George Williamson -- --Menzies iformed by Spry of his friendship with Petrov -- Lloyd, Eric Edwin Longfield -- Masson, Mercia -- --Planted as a double agent on Communist Party -- Matheson, Lawrence -- Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon -- --Attempts to establish wartime civil intelligence -- --Spry informs him of Petrov's association with australian diplomat -- --ASIO writes his response to Dr Evatt's attack in RCE debate -- MI5 -- Milner, Ian Francis George -- Morris, David John -- Moscow letter -- Murphy, Senator and Mr Justice Lionel -- Ollier, Rose-Marie -- Pakhamov, Ivan -- Petrov, Evdokia Alexeyevna -- Petrov, Vladimir Mikhailovich -- --Defection -- --Lazy worker -- --Adheres to alleged KGB warning of british spy in Sydney -- --Dies June 1991 -- Reed, Geoffrey Sandalford -- --Appoints ex-policemen to ASIO -- Richards, George Ronald -- Royal commission on Australia's security and intelligence agencies (second Hope royal commission) -- --ALP submission -- Royal commission on intelligence and security (first Hope royal commission) -- Sadovnikov, Valentin -- Security appeals tribunal -- Shedden, Sir Frederick -- --US visit -- Sillitoe, Sir Percy -- Skripov, Ivan Fedorovich -- Spry, Colonel Sir Charles Chambers Fowell -- --Appoints university graduates to ASIO -- --Convinced of Milner's guilt -- --Did he warn Menzies four months before defection? -- --Pleased with RCE outcome -- Telegraph Agency of Soviety Union (TASS) -- --Elaborate surveillance on by ASIO -- Throssell, Ric Pritchard -- Thwaites, Michael -- Truman, Harry S. -- United States of America -- Ustashi -- Venona decrypts -- Whitlam, Edward Gough -- Woodward, Albert Edward (Sir Edward or Ted) -- Yuill, Bruce Ford
Richmond, Vic : Spectrum Publications
1994
x, 292 p. : ill
Available at Canberra Special Collection (JQ4029.I6 C35 1994)
Beneath the city streets : a private inquiry into the nuclear preoccupations of government
Peter Laurie
Civil defence -- Great Britain
Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1972
302 p. : ill, maps
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA929.G7 L34 1972)
UNSW Canberra Library titles
Sukhoi Su-27, Su-30, Su-33, Su-34, Su-35 : famous Russian flanker
E. Gordon author.
Dmitriĭ Komissarov (Dmitriĭ Sergeevich), author, translator.
Manchester, England : Crécy Publitioning Ltd, 2019
719 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Canberra, Academy Library New Book Display (UG1245.R8 G77 2019)
NATO and Warsaw Pact submarines since 1955
Eugene M. Kolesnik 1945-
Poole : Blandford
1987
[160] p. : ill
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (V 857 .K6 1987)
War in space
Christopher Lee
London : Hamilton, 1986
242 p., [8] p. of plates : ill
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (UG 1530 .L43 1986)
Britain's cold war bombers
Tim McLelland author.
Place of publication not identified : Fonthill Media Limited, 2013
336 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm.
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (UG1242 .B6 M45 2013)
The technology trap : science and the military
Timothy Garden
London ; Washington : Brassey's Defence Publishers, 1989
x, 148 p. : 24 cm.
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (U 42 .G37 1989)
Soviet air defence missiles : design, development and tactics
Steve. Zaloga
Coulsdon, Surrey : Jane's Information Group, 1989
384 p. : ill
Canberra, Academy Library Main Collection (UG 743 .Z34 1989)