Commonwealth Security Services

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The Commonwealth Security Service (CSS) was a precursor to the Commonwealth Police of Australia.

Operational in the 1930s and 1940s, it merged with the Commonwealth Investigation Branch in 1946 to form the Commonwealth Investigation Service (CIS). [1] [2] The CSS monitored events and organizations deemed problematic by the government, [3] [4] including the 1948 Queensland railway strike [5]

References

  1. ↑ History of Australian intelligence and security naa.gov.au
  2. ↑ "Security Services". Kalgoorlie Miner . Western Australia. 30 May 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
  3. ↑ "Reds regain papers". The Mail (Adelaide) . South Australia. 9 December 1950. p. 54. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
  4. ↑ "LOOSE TALK". Illawarra Mercury . New South Wales, Australia. 20 November 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
  5. ↑ Olive, Doug (1948), The Queensland railway strike, February-April 1948, [Australian Communist Party?, retrieved 11 January 2020

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