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Post by Chips on May 29, 2008 10:26:40 GMT 9.5
Brush with the law No doubt many of us could tell interesting stories of the activities of ASIO and the federal police in the 1970s ("Secret's out: our bumbling spies", May 28). I remember two men in raincoats and pulled-down hats (like something out of an old spy movie) arriving at my front door. They showed me their cards and told me they needed to come in and ask me a question. They sat down and showed me a full-page Herald advertisement against conscription, which included my name among many hundreds. They looked at me earnestly and said: "Did you intend people to see this, Mrs McMahon?" I said: "Well, yes. I paid for it to be seen and it is a major newspaper." They wrote down my response in their notebooks and departed. I recall pondering that if the security of the nation depended on people like this, we could well be at risk. Dorothy McRae-McMahon Rozelle
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Post by thelion on May 29, 2008 20:27:04 GMT 9.5
My step father had told us about a similar case, it was a lot more sinister for him though at the time he had applied to be the head Pharmacist at a major Pyschiatric hospital had recently finished a stint at an Atomic Medicine unit. The agents showed him arm in arm with Dr Jim Cairns who later became Australias Deputy Prime Minister.
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Post by Chips on May 30, 2008 10:50:43 GMT 9.5
Me thinks the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is a bit of an oxymoron.
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Post by thelion on May 30, 2008 22:11:37 GMT 9.5
Chips I can tell you with little doubt that you have an ASIO file, I am absolutely sure that I have one. I have written Dozens of letters to the Editor of several Newspapers which were published under my own name that attacked the Howard Government.
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Post by Chips on Jun 4, 2008 10:08:00 GMT 9.5
Me thinks the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation is a bit of an oxymoron. Well I hope they added the comment above to my file,
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