THE ADELAIDE SPIES, Part 1

LRWE
SALISBURY

Were there spies in Adelaide in the 40s?

This brief introductory post addresses that question and produces evidence that re certainly was. In fact, as you sill see, there were at least 4, 2 Russians and 2 who were Australian born Russians.

How do we know? Quite simple really as a result of the Lapstone Conference research, a lead popped up as they sometimes do and it pointed in the direction of the activities of one of the names on the list of Russian delegates.

As said, this is the introductory only, there are hundreds of pages of information with many names yet to be reviewed.

The focus of the SA Spies' attention was the Long Range Weapons Establishment at Salisbury to the North of the city of Adelaide. Salisbury was the development zone and Woomera was the testing range.

Woomera Village 1947

The Spies

Here's the first indication found that spies were operating in SA, it's an excerpt from an Intelligence report on the activities of Feodor Nosov, who supposedly was a TASS press agency representative but in reality was Russian Intelligence officer based in Sydney.

Another excerpt and a later visit, October 1947. There was some doubt raised about this particular trip as you will read.

Sergei Vlasov

This information shows beyond any reasonable doubt that there were Russian spies in the Adelaide area and they had been there since at least 1947. The next question is how does this link to the Somerton Man case? Part of the answer may come from Sydney surveillance reports on the activities of another two Russians, they met with an Australian man, spoke with him for some time,e man left by a Tramways tram, he used a Tramways (Employees?) pass and got off at the Tramways Depot at Rushcutters Bay.

There are many more names within the files and another post will follow shortly.