Canberra KGB residency
The existence of a Soviet intelligence residency in Australia was revealed to US cryptanalysts when messages between Canberra and Moscow Center were intercepted by the VENONA project in the 1940s. The Australian messages covered a period from 1943 to 1948, and some were, uniquely among VENONA intercepts, decrypted in near real time.1
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