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ASIO spy kid recounts life with secret agent parents and holidays with Cold War defectors WedWednesday 3 updated ThuThursday 4 FebFebruary 2021 at 3:37am Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Watch 4 Share Print text only Cancel The first rule of being in a spy family: dont share what you see, not even with each other. From the outside, Dudley and Joan Doherty — plus their three children — appeared like any normal family of the 50s...

‘It’s just a little family’: the perfect cover for ASIO spies By Sandra Hogan Save Normal text size Advertisement In late-1950, Joan and Dudley Doherty started to spend a little more time with each other when they began taking part in Operation Smile, ASIO’s first bugging operation. ASIO’s work on the case began with collecting information on Australians who were passing information to Russia, but agents soon began looking at Russians based in Australia as well. One suc...

News by Leisa Scott Premium Content Subscriber only Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to believe that tucked away in the perfectly ordinary Brisbane suburb of The Gap, lived a family of spies. Mum, Dad and the three kids. They went on holidays to the Gold Coast with Soviet defectors, the Petrovs. Dad did the books for Abe Saffron, one of Australias most notorious underworld figures. Theyd pop into the city looking like an everyday family pos...