In late 1942, on the recommendation of 26-year-old Bob Santamaria, Australia?s Catholic bishops book the first steps in creating a clandestine church organisation to smash the Communist Party?s massive trade union base. Before long, The Movement, or The Show, as it became known, developed into a sophisticated intelligence agency, with its tentacles reaching into every corner of politics and working closely with official intelligence agencies, especially the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
Mark Aarons (Author) Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter on ABC Radio National for 20 years, and was the founding executive producer of Background Briefing. He is the author or co-author of six books including investigations of war criminals in Australia and the Vatican's role in smuggling mass killers, and works on Israel, Western intelligence, and East Timor. His most recent book was The Family File, an account of four generations of the Aarons family (who were members of the Communist Party of Australia over seven decades), based on the largest single collection of ASIO files in history. John Grenville (Author) John Grenville joined the National Civic Council (NCC, also known as The Movement and The Show) in 1957, and operated as an influential but secret NCC member in the trade union movement for a decade. A committed Catholic, he was a senior official in the Victorian Trades Hall Council in the 1960s and 1970s, and federal secretary of the Federated Clerks' Union from 1973 to 1975. He resigned from the NCC and his union position in 1975, in the midst of a bitter faction fight that ultimately tore the organisation apart in the early 1980s.
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