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For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells the real story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation, from shaky beginnings to the expulsion of Ivan Skripov in 1963. From the start, ASIO's mission was to catch spies. In the late 1940s, the top secret Venona program revealed details of a Soviet spy ring in Australia, supported by leading Australian communists. David Horner outlines the tactics ASIO used in counter-espionage, from embassy bugging to surveillance of local suspects. His research sheds new light on the Petrov Affair, and details incidents and activities that have never been revealed before. This authoritative and ground-breaking account overturns many myths about ASIO, and offers new insights into broader Australian politics and society in the fraught years of the Cold War.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Strategic Thinking Since 1945 -- Section One: Concepts Governing Super-Power Policies and World Order -- 2 Force in International Relations: The Experience of the 1970s and Prospects for the 1980s -- 3 US Strategic Nuclear Concepts in the 1970s: The Search for Sufficiently Equivalent Countervailing Parity -- 4 Soviet Strategy 1965-1990 -- 5 On Limited War: Soviet Approaches -- 6 Deterrence and Stability in the NATO-Warsaw Pact Relationship -- 7 Autonomy and Intervention: Super Powers and the Third World -- 8 Alliances in the 1970s and 1980s: Problems of Cohesion and Effectiveness -- Section Two: The Strategic Thinking of the Asian Great Powers -- 9 The Evolution of Chinese Strategic Thought -- 10 Strategic Thinking in India in the 1970s: Prospects for the 1980s -- 11 Strategic Thinking in Japan in the 1970s and 1980s -- Section Three: The Development of Concepts Governing Non-Nuclear Warfare -- 12 The Development of Concepts for Conventional Warfare in the 1970s and 1980s -- 13 Insurgency and Sub-National Violence -- Section Four: Political Problems in the Management and Application of Military Force -- 14 Clear and Future Danger: Managing Relations with the Soviet Union in the 1980s -- 15 Arms Control: The Record of the 1970s and the Outlook for the 1980s -- 16 Warfare and Policy: The Political Control of Military Force -- Conclusions: Of Means and Ends -- The Determinants of Defence Policy for a Medium Military Power -- The World in the 1980s: Strategic Problems and Responses -- Notes -- References -- Index.