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“On the foreshore of Sydney Harbor (above) is the brain-centre of the

Australian Security Police and the U.S, Central Intelligence Agency.”

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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. :

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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

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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

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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

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Another feature of these cars is the highly polished metalwork —an ideal medium for transfer- ring fingerprints.

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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. © :

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Security police “jumped” a trav- eller at an Australian airport,

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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.

+ <A state committee member

_ of the Communist party was ap-

proached and asked to stool for

£2 (approximately $4.40) a

week. The proposal was that he use his ability to sketch to pro- vide portraits of his fellow com- mittee members. “With the sketches he was to supply case

histories including financial posi-.

tion, personal or family troubles, weaknesses, if any, for horses, women or drink.

+ Ted Bull, militant Victoria waterfront leader, was recently approached. At first Security tried a bribe, then it tried to blackmail him into betraying his union members and his country.

These are only three of scores of known instances.

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Agents disguised as salesmen, travel the suburbs from door to door, questioning and prying. Where their suspicions are arous- ed, they scout around to find a near neighbor who will agree to

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JX AND OUT of parliament the debate over a distinctive and official Canadian flag is gaining more and more momentum as national consciousness grows.

_ Before the House of Commons now is another motion from Bona Arsenault, Liberal MP from Bon- aventure, Quebec, for the adop-

‘tion of such a flag. Gordon Sin-

clair, Toronto’s highest - rated radio commentator, has been cam- paigning for a Canadian flag for months past and winning wide- spread support (and some brick- bats) for his efforts.

Recently, ‘in Weekend maga- zine, Robert McKeown pointed out that parliament has been

_ shelving the matter of a Cana-

dian flag for the past 28 years.

The last time it came up seri- ously was in 1945 when a parlia-

mentary committee set up by the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King actually adopted a flag— the present red ensign with a large gold maple leaf in the fly, union jack in upper corner. It was never accepted by parlia- ment.

McKeown reported in his ar- ticle that the 1945 committee re- ceived 2,695 different designs and 42,168 wires and letters contain- ing suggestions and ideas.

Back in 1837-38, William Lyon Mackenzie, on Navy Island, hoist- ed his own Canadian flag with twin. stars representing the two Canadas. He also adopted a Great

~ Seal on which were the words

“Liberty - Equality.”

There is a royal proclamation on the statute books that assigns

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report regularly on the patriot in question.

The method of selecting such part-time agents follows a rout- ine; usually they are people in a financial jam or engaged in extra-marital activities. When you have the dossiers “Security” has, it is not hard to trace such people. ;

Favored occupations are insur- ance salesmen, timepayment col- lectors and rent collectors.

Among known part-time agents

are:

+ The secretary: of a North Shore (Sydney) golf club.

+ The owner of a riding school.

+ A crook whose mistress manages a guest house catering exclusively for public servants.

On information turned in by such agents, cases are on record of mail being regularly opened and sealed again before delivery.

“Security” doesn’t use the crudé method of the kettle of boiling water. It uses the mod- ern method developed for the FBI which involves snap-freezing of mail. By this means the glue .on the envelope is undisturbed.

Cases are also on record of:

* meeting rooms and even homes being wired to record conversa- tions.

- Trade unionists and progres- “sives generally in the Australian labor movement are learning to be wary of the character who turns up-out of the blue to: check the wiring or the phone.

They have learned too, to watch for the “surveyor” peering _ through his theodolite in the vic- inity of a hall—or a home. Often the theodolite is a powerful camera. :

Even the medical profession is being prostituted by “Security.”

Doctors in the Sydney metro- politan area are being systematic- ally approached by agents.

The approach is_ invariably similar: ;

Agent: “Doctor, you are a pat-

riotic Australian, you have the welfare of the people at heart, we feel that a man of your stand- ing and ideals is well equipped for the job of helping us to ex- pose and gefeat the Communist agents in our midst.

“Now doctor; you go into a great many places in this suburb, into bedrooms and places not normally entered by strangers to a house.

“You must have a fair “idea of the politics of your patients. You must see newspapers and magazines lying around, pictures on the wall and other evidence which usually points to Commun- ist’ sympathies.

“We want you to cooperate with us; keep your eyes open and we will contact you regu- larly for your observations.”

In less polished, less pompous words, medical men are being asked to put spying before the health of the people.

* To their credit a majority of medical men have spurned the “offer.”

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From all this it will be seen that Australia is on the way to becoming a police state, that Me- Carthyism and rule of the liar, the stoolpigeon and the perjurer is on the agenda.

That is unfortunately so but it need not—must not—breed de- spair. Such activities are a mani- festation of weakness, not strength.

The truth is that the mass of the people abhor such activities and abhor those who sponsor them. Rejection of the Menzies. government’s fascist-type legisla- tion is proof positive of this.

The fatal weakness in the war- mongers’ plans to destroy free: dom in the name of freedom is their complete inability to un- derstand the traditions of the people, their struggle for the in- dependence of their country, their towering belief in democ- racy and their overwhelming urge for peace.

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to Canada the national colors of white and red and the national emblem of three red maple leaves on a single stalk.

Two provinces in Canada have their official flags—Quebec and Nova Scotia.

Quebec flies the flag with the familiar blue background, white cross and the four fleur de lise.

Nova Scotia flies a white back- ground, blue cross with the Scot- tish shield in the centre in red and gold.

The rest of Canada flies either the Union Jack or the red ensign with Canada’s coat-of-arms in the fly. ?

The flag which seems to have won the most support, though it is by no means acceptable in many quarters, was described by McKeown as being divided diag- onally, with red in the part above

the diagonal line and white in the part -below. A green maple leaf is in the centre. -

McKeown reported that this flag “has succeeded in getting considerable support, chiefly in the province of Quebec.”

It has been criticized on the - grounds that the green does not ' stand out sufficiently well against the red background. As well, the diagonal coloring is said to emphasize division within the country rather than the uniorr of

two races, which its adherents intend.

(In its Canada Day issue last year, the Pacific Tribune publish- ed an artiele proposing that the new Canadian flag should be bas- ed on “what is already and can properly become emblematic of Canada.’’)

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 15, 1954 — PAGE 9