Wartime 101 - Summer 2023

Secret Intelligence

Featured articles:

• Secret agents across the Samichon by Michael Kelly. Sergeant Jack Harris fought a clandestine war behind enemy lines in the closing months of the Korean War.
• Suspicious minds by Robert Wyse. Australian Intelligence Services took a heightened interest in Korean War ex-prisoners of war after their return home.
• The walls have ears by Helen Fry. Eavesdropping on German prisoners in England provided crucial intelligence.
• Intelligence and victory during the Second World War by John R. Ferris. The role of intelligence in the Allies' victories is difficult to assess definitively.
• Australian signals intelligence and the battle for Crete by Craig Collie. Early Australian intelligence systems played an important but misunderstood role.
• El Alamein 80 years on by Craig Tibbits. Australians played a key role in this pivotal battle and paid a heavy price in blood.
• The origins of Australian naval intelligence by John Fahey. The navies of the British Empire were not always successful in assessing and using intelligence to fight the war at sea.
• A painted proclamation by Thomas J. Rogers. A colonial artwork has its roots in brutal frontier warfare.
• Plus regular features including Reflections, Collection Insights, In the Picture, Behind the Scenes, book reviews and Last Post.

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