Persons of Interest

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For forty years the Australian Intelligence & Security Organistion (ASIO) hunted spies and subversives. In the process it opened files on students, unionists, Aboriginal activists, and writers and as many as half a million other citizens. Persons Of Interest shows how things really happened in this dirty war against dissent. Using actual files, recently discovered secret surveillance film and photographs, these films are the personal stories of lives under the microscope of Government surveillance. In each episode of this Award winning series a Person Of Interest is given their previously secret ASIO intelligence file, and asked to respond to the allegations it contains.

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Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Programme Name
  • Persons of Interest
Channel
  • Whakaata Māori
Broadcaster
  • Whakaata Māori
Description
  • For forty years the Australian Intelligence & Security Organistion (ASIO) hunted spies and subversives. In the process it opened files on students, unionists, Aboriginal activists, and writers and as many as half a million other citizens. Persons Of Interest shows how things really happened in this dirty war against dissent. Using actual files, recently discovered secret surveillance film and photographs, these films are the personal stories of lives under the microscope of Government surveillance. In each episode of this Award winning series a Person Of Interest is given their previously secret ASIO intelligence file, and asked to respond to the allegations it contains.