The Factory: Volume 1: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate by John Fahey

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine, with spine tail now protected with book tape. Interior and binding are also in very good condition.

Full title: The Factory: Volume 1: The Official History of the Australian Signals Directorate: Incorporating the History of Australian Signals Intelligence from 1901-1947.

The first account of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation. By the end of World War II, it was clear the nation must never again enter a major war without a national intelligence capability.

The Factory tells the story of how Australia's talented signals intelligence amateurs took an ad hoc wartime organisation and made it a national agency that became a highly regarded member of the 'Five Eyes' signals intelligence system.

Founded in 1947 as the Defence Signals Branch, the organisation built on the foundations laid by the interwar Royal Australian Navy and wartime signals intelligence agencies, particularly Central Bureau Brisbane, which included personnel from all Five Eyes nations.

This is the story of the people who did the everyday work of capturing and analysing foreign signals. It reveals how they approached the complexity of world politics and managed massive technological change, from radio transmissions to high-capacity machine systems and computing during the Vietnam War.

Today's Australian Signals Directorate continues protecting the interests of the nation and its allies. (book flap)