Spymasters and secret agents: the birth of ASIO
Historian Phillip Deery on how ASIO recruited ordinary people as secret agents, including a 'nice widow from Adelaide' named Anne Neill
Conversations · Australian Broadcasting Corporation
January 31, 202252m 12s
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Historian Phillip Deery on how ASIO recruited ordinary people as secret agents, including a 'nice widow from Adelaide' named Anne Neill
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