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® REVIEWS The author, Alan Friedman, is a corre- spondent for The Financial Times of London, and four-time winner of British Press Awards, the British equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. He began covering the scandal known as Traqgate while serving as the paper's Milan correspondent, and later broke new ground while working on a joint investiga- tion with Ted Koppel and ABC Nighiline. You will find in this book all the infor- mation that the mainstream media consid- tried to extend its 'thirty-year rule’ to fifty years—in effect, forcing researchers to wait ‘til the year 2000 to access ASIO's earliest files from 1949, However, after an ensuing ombudsman's enquiry, and legal action by McKnight and a fellow writer, ASIO's new Director- General of Security changed the prevail- ing uncooperative attitude—thus making available to McKnight a number of key ered too hot to handle. documents for the period 1949-62. The Dedicated conspiracy researchers should public's right of access and right to know add this book to their library. was assured, at least in convenient time bundles. The author covers the period 1944-75 and first considers ASIO—the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation—with- COLD FUSION IMPACT in the Enhanced Energy Age by Hal Fox Published by Fusion, Information Center” SE ee eae eer tried to extend its 'thirty-year rule’ to fifty years—in effect, forcing researchers to wait ‘til the year 2000 to access ASIO's earliest files from 1949, However, after an ensuing ombudsman's enquiry, and legal action by McKnight and a fellow writer, ASIO's new Director- General of Security changed the prevail- ing uncooperative attitude—thus making available to McKnight a number of key documents for the period 1949-62. The public's right of access and right to know was assured, at least in convenient time bundles. The author covers the period 1944-75 and first considers ASIO—the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation—with- in the context of post-war history, and the effect of the global Communism vs Capitalism clash on Australian daily life. In true sleuth style, McKnight compiled a potential contact list of 100 ex-opera- tives and managed to interview over thirty former ASIO officers who gave accounts of ASIO's little-known acts of subversion and espionage over the years. We learn of ASIO's involvement with some foreign intelligence agencies in con- ducting secret investigations into certain Australian individuals; of their role in pro- moting military intervention in Vietnam in 1964-65, of their infiltration into political parties, trade union groups and media establishments—the list goes on. COLD FUSION IMPACT in the Enhanced Energy Age by Hal Fox Published by Fusion Information Center (1992), University of Utah Research Park, PO Box 58639, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-0639, USA; phone (801) 583 6232, fax (801) 583 6245 ISBN 0-9634978-0-4 Price: AUD$50.00 (182pp pb) (includes Bibliography of Cold Fusion on disc) Available: Sydney Esoteric Bookshop (see ad on page 63). Anyone researching the progress of cold fusion science would be well-advised to read this book. It's an excellent com- pendium about this potentially world-shat- tering breakthrough, announced unusually via press conference at the University of Utah in March 1989—much earlier than its discoverers, electrochemists Drs SPIDER'S WEB The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq by Alan Friedman Published by Bantam Books (1993), 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036, USA ISBN 0-553-09650-8 Price: AUD$48.00 (455pp hc) Available: Sydney Esoteric Bookshop. Wow, what a book! It exposes the key players in the Bush and Reagan adminis- trations who allowed and encouraged Saddam Hussein to amass his awesome arsenal. All in all, some pretty amazing stuff which makes one wonder that the Gulf War was just a huge set-up. NEXUS @65 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1994