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— Section 33(1)(a) of the Archives Act 1983

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A1838 563/10/13 PART 2 Communism - SEATO - summaries 1958 - 1958
A12909 3992 Submission No 3992 : [title exempt] - Related to Decision No 11703(IS) 22 May 1980 - 22 May 1980
A1209 1959/1172 SEATO - Report of the intelligence committee meeting Nov 1959 1959 - 1959
A6122 494 Epworth Hospital Branch. Communist Party of Australia 1949 - 1949
A12390 UNITED KINGDOM PART 1 Brief by Department of Foreign Affairs to Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security on British Intelligence establishment; [portion of title exempt]; Brief by Department of Foreign Affairs to Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security for visit to UK 1975 - 1975
A6122 525 Communist Party of Australia - South Australia Aggregate Meetings 1949 - 1949
A1209 1957/5848 SEATO. Manila Staff Planners' Conference 1955. Report on military anti-subversion 1955 - 1955
A14039 1985 Cabinet Submission 1985 - Title exempt - Decision 4654/SEC 04 Jan 1985 - 29 Jan 1985
A1838 TS694/2/4 PART 5 [Modified title: Exchange of intelligence material with the United States of America] - Received from Washington 1970 - 1971
AWM54 179/5/8 PART 5 [Chemical Warfare - Trials:] Munitions Supply Laboratories. Abstract reports indexed in records of Chemical Defence Board [Part 5 of 23] 1944 - 1944
A6122 555 CPA [Communist Party of Australia] - Arts Committee, Victoria 1949 - 1949
A1838 694/2/3 PART 6 Exchange of intelligence material with the United States of America policy 1967 - 1977
A6122 1063 Communist Party of Australia - New South Wales, Brookvale - Manly Branch 1949 - 1958
A7452 A87 PART 1 Nuclear policy [Portion of title exempt] 1978 - 1979
A6119 457 Colin SIMPSON - Volume 1 1954 - 1971
A6122 1001 Communist Party of Australia - Junior League Magazine 1949 - 1956
A6119 797 Frances Ada GLUCK (aka Garrett, aka Bernie) nee Scott, Volume 4 [255 pages - 154 of these contain exemptions] 1950 - 1959
AWM174 25 Five Years' Defence Programme - Five Years' Programme of the Joint Intelligence Organisation - Department of Defence Sep 1947 - Feb 1950
A12389 BB1 ASIS Station [portion of title exempt] 1970 - 1974
A1945 143/1/4 Intelligence on Middle East (File No 3) [1cm] 1957 - 1962