ASIO spy kid recounts life with secret agent parents and holidays with Cold War defectors
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The first rule of being in a spy family: don't share what you see, not even with each other.
From the outside, Dudley and Joan Doherty — plus their three children — appeared like any normal family of the 50s and 60s.
But behind closed doors, the pair worked for ASIO. They had been early recruits in the Australian spy agency; an integral part of organisation's first bugging operation, Operation Smile.