Last updated:

March 21, 2023

This exhibition from the National Archives of Australia reveals the personal experiences of secret agents and the curious history of espionage and counter-espionage in Australia. Developed in partnership with ASIO.

 

Often cloaked in myth, the stories of spies are sometimes stranger than fiction. Spy: espionage in Australia reveals the personal experiences of secret agents and the curious history of espionage and counter-espionage in Australia, from Federation through to the present day. Visit this popular exhibition to see surveillance images and watch candid interviews with ASIO Officers. Spy brings the stories of spies out of the shadows and into the light.

 

 

Location

Victorian Archives Centre Gallery

99 Shiel Street

North Melbourne

VIC 3051

 

 

Image Gallery

Operation Morgue, 1969
Communist Party of Australia meeting, Melbourne, taken during Operation Morgue, 1969. NAA: A9626, 514
Lydia Janovska
Surveillance photograph of Lydia Janovska at Mascot Airport, Sydney, 1960. NAA: A6122, 1755

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