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Sir Owen Dixon in the Cold War.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
SIR: L.W. Maher, in the course of his letter headed "The Cold War and the High Court" (October 2007), refers to Sir Owen Dixon's judicial career as "characterised by a ... record of continuous partisan politicking in the conservative cause, some of it overt, but most of it (unsurprisingly) covert". This overheated statement is actually defensible, to a point, but Maher then goes on to claim that Dixon was engaged in "feeding information to foreign intelligence-gathering agencies in Australia". I wonder what-intelligence information Maher has in mind here. And fed by Dixon to which agencies? OSS/CIA? MI6? Maher is not specific. He ought to have spelled this out if he has evidence.
Based on my reading of the Dixon diaries and other Dixon-related material seen in the course of writing my biography of Dixon, I would say the claim is absurd. Dixon, I recall, dined with Allen Dulles at least once, but never fed intelligence information to him or the CIA. It's perfectly true that Dixon, following on from his period as Australia's minister to Washington (1942-44, a position to which Labor Prime Minister Curtin appointed him, and on the understanding that Dixon would be directly responsible to Curtin, not to External Affairs Minister Evatt, a former High Court colleague), maintained close friendships he had made with some members of the third Roosevelt administration (they were Democrats, note--FDR-type Democrats were not "conservatives"), particularly Dean Acheson, Secretary of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Sir Owen Dixon in the Cold War.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)