Contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1 Modelled completely on the Communist Party

2 Truth will out

3 An intelligence agency

4 The Show and ASIO

5 The conspiratorial method

6 The jewel in Ted’s crown

7 Spy versus spy: part one

8 Spy versus spy: part two

9 The ghost of Stalinism

10 The Show, the CIA, and international unionism

11 The NCC schism

12 The cult of personality

Postscript

Acknowledgements

Select Bibliography

Notes