On the day Whitlam was re-elected leader after Labor's 1975 election drubbing, Clyde Cameron noted in his diary that Gough 'looked uncomfortable . chastened and worried'. It was a prescient appraisal. Dark and compromising secrets held in Moscow and Baghdad were soon to spill onto Australia's front pages
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Influence operations by foreign governments has been going on in Canberra since the 1950s. Many potential Australians have been cultivated by the US government and associated agencies.