Name: Reds Under the Bed: Asio and an Unusual Bunch of Suspects
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Author: Michael Komesaroff
ISBN: 9781925272987

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Reds Under the Bed: Asio and an Unusual Bunch of Suspects

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Physical Book

Publisher

Hybrid Publishers

Author

Michael Komesaroff

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781925272987

Synopsis "Reds Under the Bed: Asio and an Unusual Bunch of Suspects "

Who were the Reds under the bed? Why did ASIO snoop on several members of this migrant family struggling to set up a new life in Australia?ASIO maintained a vast library of files on half a million citizens, most of whom were never a threat to Australia's security. Through meticulous research, Michael Komesaroff has been able to sift through a multitude of records which were kept on his family, and discover why. This is not only an account of one family's activities, but more broadly, a history of the widespread fear of the presence and influence of communist sympathisers in Australia in the twentieth century.'A well researched and absorbing record of a respected family, highlighting its pursuit by ASIO. A great read.' - Bernard Rechter, former director of the Monash University Centre for Jewish Civilisation'Michael Komesaroff's painstakingly researched but entertainingly written book dives deeply into two intriguing worlds - that of his Lithuanian/Ukranian Jewish migrant family, and that of the intelligence bureaucracy that conducted substantial surveillance on a generation of family members. Its focus illuminates - more clearly than many encyclopaedic accounts of the secret world - the dangers of mistaking dissent for disloyalty.' - Rowan Callick, author of Party Time: Who Runs China, and How

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