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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R000400120001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: January 11, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Senator Cavanagh said 71 a r d war c,' by Mrs!
that since Mr Molt's dis- Catherine Dalton, hints
appearance - in Decent- that Mr Holt was assassi-
ber, - 1967, at . Cheviot gated for political rca-
Beach near Porisca -- sons and that Dr Bogle
some politicians in Can- died for similar reasons.
?bcrra had expressed sus- Sen. Cavanagh said: "I
1picion about the reasons have received a series of
given for his death. The allegations which I don't
senator would not name
t
e
il
y accep
.
n
cessar
the politicians.
The three main "ru- E clrte
mors" were that Mr Holt V1 9 had not gone Into the sea, C~.; -rr9a
at Portsca, that he was
t A-4 o,' that he had
no a
A South Austre"eji~Jii Labor sc,.-00rs~lirl fie wants
?1 Iinllicilt to InVCSticc1to "the opcra'tionS ?f krcijr
A.ti t1'c`]Iicl."
Poiiticcii powers in
Senator Cavaliagh, 57, said by phone from Adel :idc
tof'ay that Ile would ask severed questions in Parliament
.next month about the death Of former Prime Minister
-l~~rold 1-tolt' tnd the Bogle-Chandler case,
"If they ate not answered satisfactorily, I shall move for
a royal commission.
"The fact that there -ire groups which accept that
political pressures will not stop at liilircler, justifies Mr
hieti's death and the deaths of Dr Bo de and Mrs Chandler
being included in an inquiry," he said.
New South Wales Police Commissioner, Mr Allan, said
;he was prepared to . send a senior detective by plane to
Adelaide to confer with Senator Cavanagh on the Bogle-
Chandler allegations.
! I;ut they are grave
been murdered and bur-
ied, Senator Cavanagh charges. and ought to be
said. investigated:'
He said information he "In 1969 I claimed that
had received indicated the Australian Security
there was a need for a and Intelligence Organis-
"tltorough Inquiry into ation had plants In a
the operations of foreign foreign embassy.
political powers in Aus- . "My claim was vindica-
tralian life."
ted," he said.
And he believed it was / tIn March, 1969, ? Ml's
possible that the Anieri-`\(/Mary Hoffmann, admitted
can CIA and a group o that she copied docu-
ltussian agents were op- meats for ASIO while
crating in Australia, working at the Japanese
The senator said he re-
newed his interest In Mr
IIolt's death when a cir-
cular was sent to him
last month by the Sycl-
?ney-based Christian home
Defence Party of Aus-
tralasia.
It claimed that the
deaths of A?Ir Holt and
Dr Gilbert Bogle were
part of a plot.
The deaths of Dr Bogle
and Mrs Margaret Chan-
dler on New Year's Eve,
1963, are still a mystery.
A book released in
Canberra on Friday
claimed that their deaths
were linked with the dis-
appearance of Mr Holt
and the death of an Aus-
tralian nuclear scientist.
The book, "Without
Sell. Cavanagh, 57,
was elected to the Sen-
ate, in 1962?
He lives in the Adel-
aide suburb of Rnscwater
and has three children -
Barry, 28, secretary of
the Miscellaneous Work-
ers' Union In Adelaide,
Desmond, 21, a clerk, and
Patricia, 11.
o A long search by
.police. army and air force
nett and divers failed to
find any trace of Mr
Holt's body near Portsea
after his disappearance.
An official report by
Victorian and Federal
police said that "he
drowned accidentallywhile
.-swimming."
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By ROLLUT TRUPdBULL schoolmates the "hick-or-treat" The Australian Government;
an occa- built 140 houses for. the Pine'
ritual of Hallo% cen
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sa^ctai to The ~cm c' T1,nes. 1 NORTHERN O ?oo f00
ALICE SPRINGS,. Australia, TERn. sion previously unknown here. Gap personnel, he said, causing
Nov. 1. - Residents say that Alice i They have learned in turn that a boom in the local building
QUEENS-
children can demand a coin trades.
rents here doubled when they c Sprin;~~ LAND
Americans arrived in force I - t from a passing adult on Guy "Houses that once sold for
about two years ago to man , f - ---- , Fawes Day, Nov. 5, which cons- $15,000 now bring $22,000 and
the p-sec me . morates a plot to blow 1!p three bedroom homes that had defense lion known, as the, Space Bane I ~i1 l I A L IA J-, /. the British Parliament rented for $20 to $25 a v:eck'
at Pine Gap, 12 nniles 5011th- I i. SOUTH ,, , American men patronizing now go for $50," he said. "One;
west of this cattle town of 10,- 1 AUSTRALIA the bars and . shops. are distin- family moved into a caravatil
000 people. in the center, of! NVoarnera ~orrc is guishable by their short hair- [trailerl so they .could rent
Australia. New cuts andtheir big cars with their house to Americans."
of tin; -A (SOUTH. the steering wheels on the However, the architect add-
arliac:au ,aura distant e
Parliament in distant Canberra, traffic keeps to the left. e merle n inilux Is 111-Y L
i_ r oA,dclaic "Americana part.icin g t0 run down. i1Cl'Itrally
glnnin
ate in!
istence of the Pine Gap estab 4.a iC'Ri`, lity, joining clubs }ice Rotary,
lishment and others around the ,
and taki
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ons an
pe
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country might invite nuclear
part in school committees,
by the SOVlet Un-
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ion or Communist China in these the H