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Asio Makes a Movie shows footage gathered by undercover agents of suspected enemies of the state, including Faith Bandler
In the early 1950s, as acute cold war paranoia about possible communist infiltration began dominating Australian politics, the next generation of Indigenous activists took their equality fight to Europe.
And not just anywhere in Europe. On 7 June 1951, a 21-year-old Aboriginal man, Ray Peckham, and another increasingly prominent Indigenous activist, Faith Bandler, 32, were due to set sail from Melbourne to the World Youth Festival for Peace in Soviet-controlled East Berlin.
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Ray wasn’t aware Asio was filming him on the boat or in East Berlin and he doesn’t know who was
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