âItâs just a little familyâ: the perfect cover for ASIO spies
By Sandra Hogan
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In late-1950, Joan and Dudley Doherty started to spend a little more time with each other when they began taking part in Operation Smile, ASIOâs first bugging operation.
ASIOâs work on the case began with collecting information on Australians who were passing information to Russia, but agents soon began looking at Russians based in Australia as well. One such person was Fedor Nosov, who represented Soviet news agency TASS in Australia, but who was thought to be a person identified in intelligence documents operating under the cover name of âTEKHNIKâ.