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Title
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A2539
B1972/7
Report of the Australian Delegation to the Fourth Session of the United Nations Enlarged Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Seabed - Geneva 17 July - 21 August 1972
1972 - 1972
A1838
TS694/2/3/4 PART 1
[Modified title: Exchange of information]
1967 - 1968
A6122
850
Communist Party of Australia - South Australia - Waterfront Branch
1949 - 1957
A6122
453
CP of A [Communist Party of Australia] Cultural Activity SA [South Australia]
1949 - 1949
A12384
K/2/10 ATTACHMENT
West Germany - Intelligence and Security Services
1975 - 1975
A1838
TS100/2/2
[Title exempt]
1954 - 1983
A1838
3006/4/3 PART 22
Indonesia - Relations with Portuguese Timor
1976 - 1977
A816
19/310/167
Soviet and satellite war potential 1953-1956
1953 - 1953
A6119
1155
BACON, Kathleen Mary ( aka Olive nee CALLAGHAN ) Volume 3
1962 - 1970
A6122
482
Communist Party of Australia - Unemployed Relief Committee Western Australia
1949 - 1949
A6122
1081
Communist Party of Australia - illegal apparatus (illegal publications)
1949 - 1956
AWM54
179/5/8 PART 13
[Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Munitions Supply Laboratories. Abstract reports indexed in records of Chemical Defence Board [Part 13 of 23]
1945 - 1945
A10872
100/1/1 PART 2
Australian Service : Charter and Functions, Part 2 [Australian Secret Intelligence Service, ASIS]
1957 - 1964
AWM54
179/5/14 PART 25
[Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Dugway Proving Grounds. Mobile Chemical Warfare Section Unit, 1945-1946
1945 - 1946
PP302/1
WA30198 PART 4
Protective Forces Handbook, number 126, 127, 128 and 129 of January 1954 prepared for use by police involved in the 1954 Royal visit to Western Australia.
1954 - 1954
A1533
1967/2614
FBI inquiry re MATIONG Florencio Lopez aka Chi Chi MARTINEZ, BOND Victor Gerald, MONTOYA Alfred Arthur, MONTOYA Harold Otto
1967 - 1967
A1838
563/2/16 PART 7
Radio Australia - Technical - Foreign broadcast information service - Washington
1960 - 1960
A6122
739
CP of A [Communist Party of Australia] - Queensland Virginia Branch
1949 - 1949
AWM54
179/1/23 PART 7
[Chemical Warfare - General:] 42nd Chemical Laboratory Company: Technical Reports [Part 7 of 9]
1943 - 1943
A6122
1222
Catholic Action Part 2 (File is non-sequential with part 1)
1949 - 1960