The Commonwealth Security Service (CSS) was a precursor to the Commonwealth Police of Australia.
Operational in the 1930s and 1940s, it merged with the Commonwealth Investigation Branch in 1946 to form the Commonwealth Investigation Service (CIS).12 The CSS monitored events and organizations deemed problematic by the government,34 including the 1948 Queensland railway strike5
References
References
- History of Australian intelligence and security naa.gov.au
- "Security Services". Kalgoorlie Miner. Western Australia. 30 May 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- "Reds regain papers". The Mail (Adelaide). South Australia. 9 December 1950. p. 54. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- "LOOSE TALK". Illawarra Mercury. New South Wales, Australia. 20 November 1942. p. 5. Retrieved 11 January 2020 – via Trove.
- Olive, Doug (1948), The Queensland railway strike, February-April 1948, [Australian Communist Party?, retrieved 11 January 2020