UU OL 1 a “On the foreshore of Sydney Harbor (above) is the brain-centre of the Australian Security Police and the U.S, Central Intelligence Agency.” CO tt SYDNEY OT far from Garden Island, on the foreshore of Sydney Har- bor, there is a building which is generally believed ‘to house Aust- ralian Naval Intelligence. In fact, it is the Sydney brain-centre of the Menzies government’s hated Secret “Security” Police. It is also the local headquar- ters of the Central Intelligence Agency, the U.S. spy octopus which has its slimy tentacles in every country. . This harborside building houses the most complete dossier sys- tem in Australia. It has even more complete dossiers than the Australian clearing house — the United States embassy in Can- berra. ‘Every newspaper published in Australia eventually finds its way into the Sydney headquarters. The papers are carefully read, cut and items filed in appropriate “individual” or “organisation” files — or both. To this place come reports and photographs from agents who cover meetings or spy on decent people, scraps of conversation Overheard by stoolpigeons and agents and even property stolen from the home or person of a “suspect.” Everything is filed in an elab- orate cross-index filing system which was devised by the labor- hating U.S. firm of Remington Rand, office equipment suppliers. to the FBI. : @ _ To this place, too, come tape records of conversations gleaned .from tapping telephones. Al- though it is officially illegal, phone tapping supplies a major Part of “Security’s” information. Phone tapping is done. by vari- ous means. Most frequently used methods are: | For a permanent “tap” elabor- ate self-operating machinery has been installed in the exchange through which the tapped line Passes. e-Te cords every call in or out. This is later monitored by “Security” which merely cuts off the sections needed and files them away. The second method most fre- — quently used involves a hand - telephone with a long lead and two clip attachments which are plugged into the point in the tapped buildings where phone lines converge. This equipment is usually doctored to avoid tap - sounds passing back to the person using the phone. : ms : The snoops have a large fleet of cars; they are not all huge. black limousines of the Holly- wood type but many are old ‘and, dilapidated, small sports cars and — even hot-rods. Agents dress to suit the par- ticular car. -Many of the cars are equipped with radio tele- phones. One section of the fleet is a col- lection of mobile recording studi- os. An agent will find some pre- text for getting his victim into a car and then, with the windows _ closed, the recording machinery — is set in motion with no more The machinery tape-re- — MLC OU CUO OU UC Lek SU EL A nt tht ott ttt 0) 40) lo) tn) EVEN RUE EUENEUENE They spy _ on the people Ut Ut UAE EERE Acts expose of the activities of the Security Police in Australia could, with certain differences, have been written of the RCMP in Canada. In Canada, as in Australia and wherever the U.S. imposes its’ de- sign on subservient countries, the techniques of the FBI and the methods of McCarthyism are increasingly used against the progressive labor movement which leads the patriotic struggle for national sovereignty surrendered to the U.S. Unknown to a majority of the people; an espionage network directed against their trade unions, cultural organizations, cooperatives and societies, operates in their midst. Bill 7, now before the Canadian parliament, is intended to be its legal instrument. : / OO | nue than a faint hum to reveal its presence. RS Another feature of these cars is the highly polished metalwork —an ideal medium for transfer- ring fingerprints. 7) Agents leave no stone unturn- ed in their hunt for progressively- minded Australians. Not only the Communist party and trade unions come under their scrutiny; they also cover tennis, chess, table tennis, debating, cricket, football and even workers’ social clubs. And note this for-police state activity: If one “suspect” — that is, a patriot — is found in any organisation then every member of that organisation im- mediately has a dossier opened at headquarters. But this activity — vile as it is — is what might be called the “respectable” part of “Security’s” work of tracking down progres- sives, particularly Communists. The other side of their work involves lying, forgery, lechery, thuggery, theft and a host of other crimes repugnant to.decent people. © : + Not so very long ago two’ Security police “jumped” a trav- eller at an Australian airport, Ti TEURIEUE hoisted him into their car and drove off at a high speed. They gave the traveller a choice of be- coming a paid stoolpigeon or “take it the rough way” by being framed in connection with some financial difficulties he was hay- ing. +