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Intelligence reporting from Australia.

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ASIO / Spy games · History

Kay Marshall took Moscow’s spy gadget to a rendezvous that never happened

Kay Marshall’s controlled recruitment exposed covert communications and forced Ivan Skripov out of Australia.

Retrospective · 21 Oct, 21:28 GMT · 3 min read

ASIS / Power & scandal · History

Five armed men, a sledgehammer and the spy raid that cost ASIS its guns

An ASIS training exercise burst into Melbourne’s Sheraton in 1983. The fallout stripped Australia’s foreign intelligence service of covert-operation powers and weapons.

History · 30 Nov 1983 · 2 min read

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CIA / Power & scandal · History

The CIA Drugged Americans. Then It Destroyed the Files.

MKULTRA’s surviving paperwork exposes a vast research network, unwitting subjects and a chemist worried about what his testimony might cost him.

History · 3 Aug 1977 · 3 min read

Australia / Singapore / Spy games · History

Six Men Paddled Into Singapore Harbour. Seven Ships Paid the Price.

A captured fishing boat carried Allied raiders through Japanese-held waters in 1943. Its disguise survived an encounter with a destroyer at barely 100 yards.

History · 26 Sept 1943 · 2 min read

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The shattered Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu burning after the Battle of Midway — Archive · Oniwa Kiyoshi / Naval History and Heritage Command, NH 73065 · Licence

NSA / Spy games · History

A Fake Water Shortage Helped Nimitz Set Japan’s Midway Trap

American codebreakers planted a lie where Japanese intelligence could find it.

Retrospective · 24 Oct, 19:37 GMT · 2 min read