Traitors and Spies

Finding work in the Queensland cane fields, Russian activists recruited in these working men’s groups for their revolutionary cause. Former intelligence officer John Fahey has deployed his skills in reading between the lines in the archives of Australia, MI5 and the CIA. Australia was a target for Russian intelligence decades before the Cold War started, and John is the first historian to illuminate their measured waiting game. The fascinating, previously unknown stories, include: The first real German spy operating in Australia before 1911; The Melbourne cell and SALLY “the Australian woman”

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