From the archive · A retrospective
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.
Kay Marshall carried the Soviet intelligence officer’s parcel to Adelaide while Australian counterintelligence prepared to watch the handover. The package concealed a fast communications device. Her expected contact failed to appear, leaving ASIO with the equipment and an unresolved question about the network it was meant to serve.
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The ASIO training film combines reconstruction and surveillance material. The intended recipient of the transmitter was not identified in the reviewed account.
Sources & further reading
- National Archives: ASIO Legal Resident training film and transcriptNational Archives of Australia
- ABC reconstruction of Kay Marshall and the failed Adelaide rendezvousABC Australia
- TIME contemporary account: Theresa and Miss XTIME
- National Archives exhibition films documentationNational Archives of Australia
