Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors : Australia and the Threat from the Soviet Union in the Cold War and Russia Today.

Throughout the Cold War Paul Dibb worked with the highest levels of Australian and American intelligence, and was one of very few Australian officials to be given the top-secret security clearance for access to Pine Gap. Only the most senior intelligence officers in both the US and Australia held th...

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Main Author: Dibb, Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2018.
Series:Defence studies (Carlton, Vic.)
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505 0 |a Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 ASIO's operations against the Soviet Embassy; 2 The wilderness of mirrors; 3 A case study of US intelligence failure; 4 US bases and Soviet nuclear targeting; 5 Australian assessments of the Soviet threat; 6 Predicting the Soviet collapse; 7 The USSR as an 'incomplete superpower'; 8 Understanding post-Soviet Russia; In conclusion; Notes; Index 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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