Intelligence & Espionage

Manuscript Collections

MSS 002 – Papers of Christopher Clark
Christopher Clark (formerly writing as Chris Coulthard-Clark) graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon in 1972, and gained his PhD from the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra in 1991. Clark was Historian for Post-1945 Conflicts at the Australian War Memorial and Chief of the Air Staff Historian 1987-91. Clark has published widely on Australian military history, including Citizen general staff : the Australian Intelligence Corps, 1907-1914 (1976) and Australia's military map-makers : the Royal Australian Survey Corps 1915-96 (2000).

The collection contains drafts and copies of original sources relating to Clark’s military intelligence research.

Box 1/Folder 4-5 - 1st and 2nd drafts: annotated typescript, carbon and photocopy typescript drafts of The citizen general staff : the Australian Intelligence Corps, 1907-1914; Folder 8 – Including copied Intelligence minute papers, 21 July 1905, Australian Intelligence Corps (Victoria), Finances, 1909, Australian Intelligence Corps (Victoria), letter from Lieutenant H.B. Wallus to Lieutenant Raisbeck R.A., 9 December 1910

Box 2/Folder 9 – Including copied correspondence regarding the Australian Intelligence Corps, 9 September 1912

Box 7/Folder 56 – Including copied Sydney Military Engineering Museum file: 1.418.7 - National Intelligence Committee, May 1971-July 1972

MSS 021 – Papers of Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn
Lieutenant-General Sir George MacMunn (1869-1952) was a British soldier, scholar and writer, who served in Asia, India, Mesopotamia, South Africa, Gallipoli and Europe.  He was one of three signatories on the plan for the evacuation of the Allied army from the Gallipoli peninsula.  His papers include correspondence, typescripts, carbon-copies and manuscripts of articles, short-stories, chapters of novels, sketches and notes for proposed books. The archive includes examples of ‘secret’ messages communicated between military officials in the defence hierarchy.

Box 1/Folder 2 - Carbon typescript copy marked secret of G.S.R. Z.48 entitled 'Instructions to general officers commanding 9th; carbon typescript copy marked secret telephone message, 8 January 1916 entitled 'Embarked between 9 a.m. 7th and 9 a.m. 8th January', stamped General Staff, Operations Section "Q", 2 p.

Box 1/Folder 4-5 – Including typescript copy of a secret telegram No. 6093 sent by MacMunn relating to the political unrest in Baghdad, 30 May 1919

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.’

MSS 141 – Papers of Albert Palazzo
Adjunct Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra, and former Director of War Studies in the Australian Army Research Centre, Palazzo has published widely on Australia’s military history, including Defenders of Australia: The 3rd Australian Division, 1916-1991 (2002).

Box 1/Folder 5 – Original research for Defenders of Australia: The 3rd Australian Division, 1916-1991 (2002), comprising 13 completed questionnaires from servicemen on ‘3rd Division Signals in World War II’ and ‘3rd Division AASC in World War II’, with accompanying related correspondence and additional information/material (1997-2001)

MSS 145 – Papers of General Sir Cecil James East
General Sir Cecil James East was a senior British Army Officer (1837-1908) who served in the Crimean War and was present at the siege and fall of Sevastopol.  The collection comprises three bound manuscript journals covering East's military career from 1854-1898. East's service included: D.A.Q.M.G., (Intelligence Branch), H.Q. of the Army, 1 April 1876 to 29 January 1879; A.Q.M.G., (Intelligence Branch), H.Q. of the Army, 30 January 1879 to 16 May 1879; A.Q.M.G. (Intelligence branch), H.Q. of Army, 21 November 1879 to 26 June 1873 amongst others.

Box 1/Folder 2: Journal, 25 May 1872-26 September 1888, including descriptions of East’s attachment to the Intelligence Department at the War Office in 1875. An indication of his departmental work is given such as attending German manoeuvres, work on French troops in Algeria, and work on the Discipline Bill in 1879. East was busy in preparing reinforcements for Zululand following the disaster at Isandlwana and was then sent to South Africa himself in May 1879 (East’s service in Zululand was detailed in a separate journal, now presumed lost covering the period from 3 June to 17 October 1879). Returning to the Intelligence Department, East gives details of his work such as appearing before the Alison and Airey Committees and working on memoranda on the Second Afghan War.

MSS 180 – Papers of Lorna Ollif
Lorna Ollif was a member of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) during World War II, and expert on the contribution and experiences of women in the Second World War. Her seminal Women in Khaki: the story of the Australian women’s army service, 1941-1947 (1981) includes a chapter on signals.

Box 1/Folders 1, 3-4 – Drafts relating to Women in Khaki: the story of the Australian women’s army service, 1941-1947 - Chapter 9: Signals, searchlights, and anti-aircraft units

MSS 190 – Papers of Michael Richardson
Journalist and photographer, Michael Richardson was the Southeast Asia correspondent for The Age newspaper in the 1970s, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore until 2009.  His archive includes unique primary sources on East Timor’s political history and conflict, including photographs of the Declaration of Independence on 28 November 1975 and some copies of intelligence intercepts.

Box 8/ Folder 48 - East Timor – Papers relating to the militia (1999), including an interview on the new evidence showing link between the Indonesian Army and the terrorist Militias in East Timor....Int. Antonio Lopez, Socialist Party of East Timor; Agun Anon, People’s Democratic Party of Indonesia; Desy Anwar, journalist; journalist Mike Carey with intelligence ‘Intercepts’

MSS 267 – Log of HMS Pegasus
Official logbook of the Royal Navy vessel HMS Pegasus, 1786-1788, recorded whilst engaged in surveillance of the eastern coast of North America, and West Indies, in the years immediately following the American War of Independence.

Contains entries for 21 March 1786 to 12 March 1788, including weather conditions, rations, punishments, number of sick, shore landings and encounters with other ships. The ship was captained by the ‘sailor king’, Prince William Henry (later William IV) and contains a description of a sighting of the young Captain Horatio Nelson.

MSS 270 – Papers of Robin Prior
Emeritus Professor of History, Adelaide University and former Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, UNSW Canberra, Prior is an internationally recognised historian of the First and Second World Wars and Winston Churchill. Prior’s collection comprises research material for his publications, including copied War Office (UK) intelligence reports and other official records.

Box 3/Folder 9 - Copied war diaries/reports including extracts from reserve army daily intelligence summaries, 16p.
Box 5/Folder 16 - Copied war diaries/reports including Fourth Army intelligence summary (26th June 1916, 27th June 1916, 28th June 1916), 12p.
Box 6/Folder 21 - Copied war diaries/reports including Fourth Army: hints of the intelligence service during battle, 7p.

MSS 322 – 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).

Search the collection guide to find material on related topics such as ASIS, surveillance, the Petrov Affair, and secret information.

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 335 – Papers of Major D.C.L. Wilson
Correspondence, diaries, newspaper articles, other publications and personal documents and effects pertaining to Major D.C.L. Wilson's education at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, training at the Land Headquarters Tactical School and World War II service, particularly in the Pacific. Also includes original documents relating to military training, orders, signals and maps, ciphered messages and classified ‘secret’ papers.

A highlight is an original Slidex RT Code system, consisting of a folding case with code sheet and inserted material: Seven Steps to Slidex (March, 1945), Instructions for the Use of Slidex RT Code (undated); cloth paper with Japanese writing (undated).

Box 5/Folder 24 - Military Documents – Orders, Reports, Training Instructions, including File: ‘Most Secret F. Backhander Force 0.0 1-43’ (1943); Folder 26 - File: ‘[Top Secret: Operational Plans for 4-44 and 6-44]’ (May 1944), Series of communiqués, minutes, etc. marked ‘Top Secret’ regarding New Guinea campaign (April-July 1944), File: New Guinea Force Standard Operational Procedure Instructions [Secret] (May 1944); Folder 27 -
Confidential/secret papers concerning New Guinea, New Britain military operations (September 1943-May 1944); General Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Monthly Summary of Enemy Dispositions [Top Secret], Copy No. 65, Serial no. 23 (September 1944).

Box 6/Folder 28 - Military Documents – Orders, Reports, Training Instructions, including File: ‘Copies Messages SWPA C-in-C Negotiations Surrender’ (March-August 1945) – consists of mainly of cipher messages concerning details of Japanese surrender and procedures to be followed, File: ‘Forward Echelon Land Headquarters: Appreciation Notes for Staff Study for the Occupation of the Netherlands Indies’ [Top Secret] (July-August 1945), File: Copies Messages from Forland Concerning Surrender [cipher messages] (August 1945), File: Secret: Operations for the Reoccupation of the NEI Subsequent to VJ Day (12 August 1945), File: Copies Messages Jap Govt. Surrender Negotiations [cipher messages] (August 1945), File: Top Secret: Tentative Troop Lists ‘Satinwood’ (Aust Army Units Only). Copy No. 4 (August 1945?); Folder 30 - File: ‘ADV HQ AMF OP Instructions’ [Australian Military Forces orders secret/restricted] (August-December 1945)
Box 7/Folder 33 - Contour Maps, Scale 1:20,000 [‘Secret Until Departure for Combat Operations], Sheets 1 and 2 (undated); Folder 35 - Slidex RT Code system - Folding case with code sheet and inserted material: Seven Steps to Slidex (March, 1945), Instructions for the Use of Slidex RT Code (undated); cloth paper with Japanese writing (undated).

MSS 337 – Papers of J.A. Letts
Field service pocketbooks, memoranda, and volumes relating to the Home Guard (Australian Volunteer Defence Corps) in the Second World War collected by J.A. Letts, including small arms training pamphlets. 

Box 1/Folder 2 - Field Service Pocket Book: Intelligence – Information and Security. Pamphlet no. 3, 1939

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 22/Folder 139 - Intelligence and political warfare, August 1941; July-August 1942; February 1943; May and December 1944; February 1945 (photocopies of Australian government documents)

MSS 366 – Papers of John Coates
Over his long 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.

The archive includes multiple copied Australian and Allied intelligence reports (including relating to the US Finschhafen operation), regulations, transmits, Papua New Guinea intelligence gathering in World War II, codebreaking against Japan and other espionage topics.

Box 1/Folder 5 - General correspondence, Australian Units, 1941-1945 – including most secret radio transmits

Box 2/Folder 8 - Folder 8 – Description of a signals intercept site during World War II, 25p.

Box 3/Folder 14 - Resume of allied military operations and intelligence leading to capture of Finschhafen settlement and airfield, Sep-Oct, 1943, based on information received from situation reports, captured documents and deductions, 8 Oct. 1943, 9p.

Box 4/Folder 18 - Part of a book on Papua New Guinea in World War II titled ‘Missionary turns spy’ (1989) by Paster AFH Freund, pp.68-145; Folder 20 - Photocopied published material relating to US military intelligence, 1916-1924 comprising: Lecture on intelligence: for regimental officers and non-commissioned officers, July 24, 1916, 6p; Intelligence regulations, Prepared by the general staff American Expeditionary Forces, 28p; Instructions for regimental intelligence service, Prepared by intelligence section, general staff headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, France, December 1917, 17p; Two lectures on intelligence by Colonel Vivian, British Army and Major Williams, US Army, April 15, 1918, 18p; Willoughby, C. A. Identification of German prisoners of war. Infantry Journal, Vol. 15, no. 3, pp.181-202 + 2 maps; Organization and functions of the Military Intelligence Division general staff, January 15, 1920, 23p; Intelligence regulations, prepared by the general staff, American Expeditionary Forces, March 1920, 12p; Combat intelligence regulations, Prepared under direction of the A. C. of S., G-2, March 1, 1922, 12p; The Military Intelligence Division: War Department general staff, by Col. J. H. Reeves, G. S., A. C. of S., G-2, W. D; Lecture delivered at the Army War College, Washington Barracks, D.C., September 4, 1924, 17p; Principles of intelligence, by Lieutenant Colonel Aristides Moreno, Infantry, pp.241-243

Box 5/Folder 22 – US official code names, dated 6 May and 8 May 1943, 6p; Folder 25 – Documents relating to the operations of General Headquarters, Southeast Pacific area – Military Intelligence Section, General staff bulletin and summaries of operations, 1943, including Special Intelligence Bulletin, 1 July 1943 – 31 December 1943 (Nos. 60-239), daily summary of enemy intelligence - G-2 estimate of the enemy situation, IV: No. 549, 22-23 Sept. 1943, 5p, No. 550, 23-24 Sept. 1943, 7p, No. 551, 24-25 Sept. 1943, 4p, No. 553, 26-27 Sept. 1943, 9p.

Box 6/Folder 28 - Photocopied copies of reports by United States Seventh Amphibious Force on the Finschhafen operations, 1943 – 1945, including: Finschhafen operation - report upon, 23 October 1943, 11p. (2 copies); Narrative of action, 15 – 30 September 1943, 8p. (2 copies); Secret war diary of Task Force Seventy-Six (Seventh Amphibious Force), September 1-30, 1943, pp.22-29

Box 11/Folder 59 - Correspondence together with a book chapter – Drea, E. J. Where the Japanese Army codes secure?, pp.113-136

Box 14/Folder 74 - Dera, E. US Army codebreakers and the war against Japan. In Dockrill, S. (Ed.). From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima: the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45, pp, 87-106

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). In May 1941 he enlisted in the Citizen Military Forces and in 1942 transferred to the Australian Imperial Force. As a sergeant in intelligence, he served with the Central Bureau, a code-breaking signals unit and with the Far Eastern Liaison Office. From 1974 to 1976 he was senior research fellow at the strategic and defence centre, Australian National University.

Series 10 (Box 19) of MSS 374 relates to intelligence, defence signals and cryptography.

Box 3/ Folder 25 - Papua New Guinea reports: Intelligence Brief 12/85 Terrorism and Papua New Guinea; National –Provincial Government in Relations in Papua New Guinea by R J May, Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University

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; Folder 3 – DSD book: Material relating to intelligence activities and proposal for history of Australian signal intelligence during World War II including: correspondence with DSD, book outline, reference material; Folder 4 - Intelligence activities: Central Bureau intercept, Des Ball

Rare Books

A. Intelligence (including surveillance, intelligence gathering and reports) – grouped chronologically by historical period/conflict

See also Section B below arranged by subject (including ciphers, espionage, secret service, signals etc) – grouped alphabetically by topic

Early Works 17th-19th Centuries

The French revolution of 1830 : the events which produced it, and scenes by which it was accompanied
Turnbull, David
London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1831
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DC261 .T94 1830)

History of all the events and transactions which have taken place in India : containing the negotiations of the British government, relative to the glorious success of the late war, addressed to the Honorable Secret Committee of the Honorable Court of Directors of the East India Company
Bengal (India). Governor-General (1798-1805 : Wellesley); East India Company . Court of Directors. Secret Committee
London : John Stockdale, 1805
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DS480 .I5)

The memoirs of John Ker, of Kersland in North Britain, Esq : containing his secret transactions and negotiations in Scotland, England, the courts of Vienna, Hanover, and other foreign parts ...
Ker, John, 1673-1726
London : Published by himself, 1726
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DA437.K4 A2 1726)

The proceedings against Sir John Fenwick upon a bill of attainder for high treason : together with a copy of a letter sent by Sir John Fenwick to his lady ...
Fenwick, John
1st ed.; London : The Author, 1698
Available at Canberra Special Collection (KD 372 .F46 P76 1698)

The report of the proceedings and opinion of the Board of General Officers, on their examination into the conduct, behaviour, and proceedings of Lieutenant-General Sir John Cope, Knight of the Bath, Colonel Peregrine Lascelles, and Brigadier-General Thomas Fowke, from the time of the breaking out of the rebellion in North-Britain in the year 1745, till the action at Preston-Pans inclusive
Great Britain. Army.
London : W. Webb, 1749
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DA814.3 .R47 1749)

First World War

Extracts from German documents dealing with "lessons drawn from the battle of the Somme"
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff (Intelligence)
London : General Staff Intelligence, General Headquarters, 1916
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D545.S7 E98 1916)

[German instructions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of gas poisoning : (from the standpoint of January 1918)]
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff (Intelligence)
London : War Office. General Staff, 1918
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG 447 .G47 1918)

The German tank Elfriede
Description: Includes inserted leaf:"Sketch of hostile tank, used at Villers Bretonneux on 24th April 1918." "S.S. 714" "Ia/50096"
London: General Staff Intelligence, General Headquarters, 1918
Available at Canberra Special Collections (folio UG620.G3 G47 1918)

The protection of merchant ships against moored mines: a handbook for the use of captains of vessels fitted with the Otter installation
Description: Lead-weighted book designed to be thrown overboard in event of enemy capture
London: Vickers, 1917
Available at Canberra Special Collection (V 856 .P76)

Secret despatches from Arabia by T.E. Lawrence
Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935
London : Golden Cockerel Press, 1939
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D568.4 .L38 1939)

Second World War

Diary of a Nackeroo : 2/1st North Australia Observers [i.e. Observer] Unit
Roddick, G. T.
Australia : The Author, 198-?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D811 .R62 1980)

German plans for the invasion of England, 1940 : operation "Sealion"
Assmann, Kurt, 1883-; Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division
Oxford? : Naval Intelligence Division, 1947
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D771 .G47 1947)

Joint Army-Navy intelligence study of Caroline Islands
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence; United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Washington, D.C : Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board, 1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D767.99 .C37 J56 1944) 

Joint Army-Navy intelligence study of Java-Timor area
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence; United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Washington, D.C : Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board, 1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D767.7 .J56 1945)

Joint Army-Navy intelligence study of Marianas Islands
United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; United States. Office of Naval Intelligence
Provisional ed.; Washington, D.C : Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board, 1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D767.99 .M37 J56 1944)

Joint Army-Navy intelligence study of Palau Island
United States. Office of Naval Intelligence; United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations
Washington, D.C : Joint Intelligence Study Publishing Board, 1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D767.99 .P34 J56 1944)

Keeping information from the enemy
Australia. Army. General Staff (Intelligence)
Melbourne : Military Intelligence, 1940?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UB 251 .A8 K4 1940)

Notes on Japanese army. Part I. Army organization and guide to identification. Part II. History and geography
Australia. Army. General Staff (Intelligence)
North Melbourne : Victorian Railways Printing Works, 1942
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D767.7 .N68 1942)

Rabaul area - Gazelle peninsula and southern New Ireland : Directorate of Intelligence, Central Interpretation Unit
Allied Land Forces. South West Pacific Area; Allied Air Forces. Directorate of Intelligence. Central Interpretation Unit
S.l. : Allied Air Forces, South West Pacific Area, 1943
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D767.95 .A54 1943)

Security and the duties of unit security officers
Australia. Australian Army. 
North Melbourne, Vic. : Victorian Railways Printing Works, 1944
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D 810 .S7 1944)

Contemporary Works 20th-21st Centuries

Australian army manual of land warfare
Australia. Army. Headquarters Training Command
Darlinghurst, N.S.W. : Headquarters Training Command, 1977- 
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UD 155 .A8 1977)

The CIA and the cult of intelligence
Marchetti, Victor. ; ; Marks, John D.
[1st ed.]; New York : Knopf, 1974
Available at Canberra Special Collection (JK 468 .I6 M37 1974)

Iraq culture smart card : guide for cultural awareness
United States. Marine Corps Intelligence Activity.
Quantico, VA : MCIA, 2004
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DS70.7 .I72 2004)
Cold War

Petrov's 25,000 dollar story exploded : the devastating answer to Petrov's "Moscow gold" story as presented to the Petrov Commission
Sharkey, L. L. (Lawrence Louis), 1898-1967; Hill, E. F. (Edward Fowler), joint author
Newtown : R. S. Thompson, 1955?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU113.5 .S65 S5 1955)

The real cold war : featuring "Jack in Joe's land"
Tye, Chris B.
2nd ed.; Gillingham, Kent : The Author, 1995
Available at Canberra Special Collection (folio D771 .T93 1995) 

Pine Gap

Pine Gap, 1966-1981
National Seminar on United States Military Bases in Australia (1981 : Alice Springs, N.T.); Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament; Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights' Union (Australia); Australian Peace Liaison Committee
Surry Hills, N.S.W. : Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, 1981
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA26.A8 P56 1981)

Pine Gap : Australia and the US geostationary signals intelligence satellite program
Ball, Desmond
Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1988
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA 870 .B3 1988) and other locations

Timor

East Timor handbook
Pataky, Les N., writer of introduction.; Australian Theatre Joint Intelligence Centre
Potts Point, NSW Australian Theatre Joint Intelligence Centre, 1999
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DS649.29 .A88 1999)

B. Subjects (including ciphers, espionage, secret service signals etc) - arranged alphabetically by topic

See also Section A above for works on intelligence (including surveillance, intelligence gathering and reports) - grouped chronologically by historical period/conflict

Ciphers, codes, cryptography

The bombe : prelude to modern cryptanalysis
United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Center for Cryptologic History.
Fort George G. Meade, Md. : Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 1994?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D810.C88 U54 1994)

Catalogue of War Office publications authorised scale of issue and code numbers. Part II. General staff training publications 1958
Great Britain. War Office
England : War Office, 1958
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA 649.3 .G73 1958)

Espionage

Life of Captain Nathan Hale, the martyr-spy of the American Revolution
Stuart, I. W.
2nd ed., enlarged and improved; Hartford Conn. : F.A. Brown; 1856
271 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Available at Canberra Special Collection E 207 .H34 S7 1856

Spotlight on red spy rings : a factual statement of the evidence proving the existence of an international spy ring
Carnegie Vic. : Renown Press, 1954?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU 113.5 .S65 S69 1954) and other locations

The Spy
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936.
England? : S.l; 1900?
Available at Canberra Special Collection PG 3463 .S68 1900

Without hardware
Dalton, C. R. (Catherine R.), 1922-
Canberra : Nicholson Prints, 1970
Available at Canberra Special Collection (DU 117 .D3 1970) and other locations

Secret Service

The coast watchers
Feldt, Eric, 1899-1968
Melbourne : G. Cumberlege, Oxford university Press, 1946
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D810.S7 F4 1946)

The riddle of the sands : a record of secret service
Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922
London : Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1903
Available at Canberra Special Collection (PR 6005 .H52 R5 1903)

A touch of sabotage : 1940-1945
Goyder, Jack, 1920- 
Caloundra, Qld : J. Goyder, 1992
Available at Canberra Special Collection (D810.S7 G69 1992)

Signals

Der Signalgast : Anweisungen zum Signalisieren auf See
Siebente vollig neubearbeitete Aufl; Berlin : E.S. Mittler & Sohn, 1943
Available at Canberra Special Collection (VK391.I6 G7 1943)

Inter-communication in the field
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff
London : The Office, 1917
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG575.G7 I5 1917)

The preparation and despatch of messages in the field
Mackworth, H. L.
Melbourne Vic. : A.J. Mullett, Govt. Printer, 1915?
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UA945.A8 M34)

R/T signal procedure - 1942
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff.
London : The War Office, 1942
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG575.G7 R7 1942)

Signal training. Part VI, Procedure
Great Britain. War Office. General Staff.
London : War Office, 1918
Available at Canberra Special Collection (UG 575 .G7 S53 1918)

 

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