This episode covers the tumultuous era that was 1960s, as Michael Hyde revisits his past as a student revolutionary who called for the violent overthrow of the state. A prime target at the top of ASIO’s watchlist, his life was documented in detail, phone tapped and he himself followed relentlessly. This instalment also interviews retired members of ASIO – some of which decided to remain anonymous – giving an insight into the lives of spies who spent decades watching from the shadows.
There are two kinds of history–official history, the kind that is taught in schools. Then there’s secret history – a scandalous kind of history, which explains how things really happened.
In this series, a ‘person of interest’ is given their previously secret Australian intelligence file and recounts the allegations contained within it. These are highly personal stories taken from ASIO intelligence files from the Cold War and its aftermath, through to the decades of student radicalism and dissent of the 1960’s and 70’s – a time when fear of Communism, outsiders, and perceived threats to the established order fostered a secret network of surveillance on ordinary Australian citizens.
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