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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 30, No. 8. 1967.

Spy the spy

Spy the spy

ASPB

The University of Western Australia may soon screen its students to track down agents of the Australian Security Intelligence organisation.

The university's Guild of Undergraduates will carry out the security check after the outcome of the investigations by officials of the National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS).

It has been claimed that in every university there is one member of the staff whose duty is to report on colleagues and students, and also that every university has a group of paid student informers. The intelligence service and the Special Branch hold about 10.000 individual security dossiers, which are exchanged with friendly countries. The union's president. Mr. T. McMichael claimed that his Adelaide flat was broken into and private papers tampered with.

"We have no evidence at' present of security activities on our own campus." Mr. P. Edwards, president of the Western Australia University Guild of Undergraduates, said. "However, we shall start in-vestigations here if investigations indicate this sort of thing to be happening."