Intelligence and security, 1963-1986

Component identifier:

Series 5

Content Summary:

Millar had a lifelong interest in security issues and during his years in Canberra he had close contacts with officials in the Departments of Defence and Foreign Affairs and with officers in the armed services. The series contains copies of some official British, Canadian, New Zealand and Australian reports on security. There are letters, cuttings and draft submissions by Millar to the 1974-1975 Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security, headed by Justice Robert Hope. Millar also took an interest in the Communist journalist Wilfred Burchett and kept copies of official hearings, newspaper articles and letters referring to Burchett and especially his activities in North Korea in 1950-1953.

The correspondents include Lord Gore-Booth, Sir Maurice Oldfield and G.M. Brownbill.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The first instalment of the papers, comprising most of the articles, lectures, talks, broadcasts and book reviews, were presented to the National Library by Professor T.B. Millar in 1990. The rest of the papers were donated by his widow, Mrs Margaret Millar, and were transferred by his son Mr Jonathan Miller in 1997.

Names:

Millar, T.B. (Thomas Bruce), 1925-1994

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