Series 3: Mark Aarons - Nazis in Australia 'Background Briefing' Programs

MLMSS 10621/Boxes 39-42

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431677

0.68 metres of textual records (4 boxes)

This series consists of the files relating to the five-part ABC Radio National series Nazis in Australia broadcast on Background Briefing in April and May 1986. It includes the files relating to the Hawke Governments inquiry into the claims made by those programs and conducted by former senior Attorney Generals Department official, Andrew Menzies. Among those papers are the full series of submissions made to Menzies, including the original intelligence and diplomatic records on which the claims made in the programs were based, as well as the computerised summaries that were made of the files in preparation for the production of the series. The following list was prepared by Mark Aarons in 2003.

BOX 39 (prev 35)
01. Program transcripts
02. Correspondence & clippings seven files
03. NSW Parliament
04. General file
05. Document notes
06. Telexes

BOX 40 (prev 36)
01. Program publicity
02. New York Press Conference
03. Ustaše newspapers
04. Andrew Menzies inquiry general correspondence
05. Submission to Menzies inquiry
06. Supplementary documents provided to the Menzies inquiry file one

BOX 41 (prev 37)
01. Supplementary documents provided to the Menzies inquiry file two
02. Menzies inquiry final requests
03. Menzies inquiry British documents computer summary
04. Menzies inquiry American documents computer summary
05. Menzies inquiry requests from computer summaries file one

BOX 42 (prev 38)
01. Menzies inquiry requests from computer summaries file two
02. Menzies inquiry individual program requests five files
03. Menzies inquiry report
04. Menzies inquiry report confidential section obtained under Freedom of Information

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