The Commonwealth Security Service (CSS) was an arm of the earlier forms of the Commonwealth Police of Australia.
It operated in the 1930s and 1940s, and was amalgamated with the Commonwealth Investigation Branch, to form the Commonwealth Investigation Service (CIS) in 1946.[1][2] It was involved in monitoring events and organisations considered problematic by the government of the time,[3][4] including strikes 1948 Queensland railway strike[5]
References
edit- ^ History of Australian intelligence and security naa.gov.au
- ^ "Security Services". Kalgoorlie Miner. Western Australia. 30 May 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "Reds regain papers". The Mail (Adelaide). South Australia. 9 December 1950. p. 54. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ "LOOSE TALK". Illawarra Mercury. New South Wales, Australia. 20 November 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- ^ Olive, Doug (1948), The Queensland railway strike, February-April 1948, [Australian Communist Party?, retrieved 11 January 2020