Table of Contents

Preface, Introduction
1 Wilson Le Couteur's Pacific Mission, 1901
2 Atlee Hunt: Public Servant, Spy Master, 1901-23
3 Enlightened Princes and Wise Generals: Military Intelligence in Early Australia
4 A Prescient Letter: Suspecting Japanese Spies
5 Join the Navy and Spy on the World
6 Australian Success, 1914
7 The Wanetta Organisation, 1901-20
8 National Intelligence, 1901-20
9 The First Coastwatcher
10 Australian Signals Intelligence, 1914-29
11 Hand to Mouth: Australian Signals Intelligence in the 1930s
12 Harry Freame's Japanese Mission, 1941
13 The Coastwatchers Go to War, 1939-42
14 The Lions in the Den: Japanese Counterintelligence
15 Herding Cats: The Allied Intelligence Bureau
16 Australia's First National Signals Intelligence Effort
17 Battle in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-42
18 Establishing Central Bureau, 1942
19 Stepping on Toes: Australia's Attack on Japan's Diplomatic Codes
20 Allied Secret Intelligence Compromised, 1944
21 Saving Australian SIGINT, 1945-47
22 Coastwatching behind Enemy Lines
23 The Solomons and Pacific Area, 1943
24 Human Intelligence in the Attack, 1943-45
25 The Kempeitai's Game, 1942-45
Notes, bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dr John Fahey worked at Defence Signals Directorate (1988-1996) and served in a number of regimental and intelligence postings during his service in the British and Australian armies between 1975 and 2014. He is currently an Honorary Fellow of the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, and managing director of Cynergex Group, a medical education and services company.

Reviews

'Based on extensive research in Australian, British and American archives...vigorous and lucid writing' - Peter Edwards, The Australian

'A meticulously researched investigation full of well-grounded assessments, but it is also a well-crafted narrative, all the more appealing because its stories and characters are real.' - Peter Monteath, Journal of Pacific History

'Lays bare both brilliance and the incompetence in the first 45 years of Australian intelligence' -Tim Coyle, The Australian Naval Institute