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- ↑ https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/intelligence-and-security/history-australian-intelligence-and-security#security-intelligence [ bare URL ]
- ↑ "Security Services". Kalgoorlie Miner . Western Australia. 30 May 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Reds regain papers". The Mail (Adelaide) . South Australia. 9 December 1950. p. 54. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "LOOSE TALK". Illawarra Mercury . New South Wales, Australia. 20 November 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ Olive, Doug (1948), The Queensland railway strike, February-April 1948, [Australian Communist Party?, retrieved 11 January 2020