Format:
1 Online-Ressource (585 p)
ISBN:
9781952535482
Series Statement:
Official History of ASIO v.3
Content:
The inside account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian soil during the years of the Fraser and Hawke governments. This is the third and final volume of the Official History of ASIO
Content:
Cover -- Half title -- The Official History of ASIO series -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Part 1: ASIO DURING THE FRASER YEARS 1975-1983 -- 1. HOPE FOR A NEW BEGINNING: Responding to New Leadership and the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, 1975-1983 -- Major events of the Fraser era -- New leadership for an ASIO under strain -- Judge Woodward as Director-General -- Harvey Barnett as Deputy Director-General -- Woodward and the Attorney-General
Content:
Briefing the Prime Minister -- Briefing the Opposition Leader -- Reports from the Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security -- Considering responses to the royal commission -- Grappling with legislative reforms -- Woodward's responses -- Reflections -- 2. WOODWARD MAKES HIS MARK: Restructuring and Refocusing, 1976-1983 -- Woodward's early changes -- 1976 staff seminar -- November 1977: implementation of a new structure -- Operations Resources Group -- Revised senior management arrangements -- Annual reports, assessments and collection arrangements
Content:
Guidance for audio, entry and search operations -- Expenditure and oversight -- Keeping abreast of technological innovations -- ASIO's priorities and ethics -- Woodward's 1979 assessment -- Managing a dispersed organisation -- Delayed relocation to Canberra -- Harvey Barnett's succession -- The March 1983 elections -- Reflections -- 3. PERSONNEL: The Crucial Resouce, 1975-1983 -- Recruitment, employment categorisation and pay -- A recruitment failure -- Changing recruitment criteria -- Opening up recruitment -- Psychological services -- Promotions and appointments -- Pay grades and categorisation
Content:
The Staff Association -- Enhanced ASIO training -- Reflections -- 4. CONFRONTING A NEW FACE IN TERRORISM: Responding to the Ananda Marga, 1977-1983 -- ASIO's early response -- ASIO's response to the Hilton Hotel Bombing -- Arrests, prosecutions and fallout -- The New Humanist Society -- Reflections -- 5. COMBATING TERRORISM: Developing Mechanisms for Dealing with Politically Motivated Violence and Terrorism, 1975-1983 -- The Monash affair -- Saving on protective security costs -- Securing assets -- Prime ministerial security -- Creation of the Protective Security Coordination Centre
Content:
Committee for Protection Against Violence -- Protective Security Review -- Threat assessments -- Coordinating responses to concerns over terrorism -- National Anti-Terrorist Plan -- Technical Support Unit -- Security planning for the CHOGM, 1981 -- Protection for the Brisbane Commonwealth Games, 1982 -- Reflections -- 6. TERRORISM FROM OVERSEAS: ASIO's Counterterrorism Targets, 1975-1983 -- Terrorism and the Middle East -- The Iraqi Consulate-General -- The Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Aboud Aboud case -- Mail interception -- Technical operations
Content:
The assassination of the Turkish Consul-General
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781760293215
Additional Edition:
Print version Blaxland, John The Secret Cold War : The Official History of ASIO, 1975-1989 Sydney : Allen & Unwin,c2016 ISBN 9781760293215
Language:
English
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