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1072:. Australia's military chiefs-of-staff appeared as witnesses for Kane. ASIO provided the names of Australian POWs whom Burchett had met in Korea and Kane put thirty of these on the stand. The former prisoners testified that Burchett had used threatening and insulting language against them and in some cases had been involved in their interrogations. North Vietnamese defectors, Bui Cong Tuong and To Ming Trung, also testified at the trial, claiming that Burchett was so highly regarded in Hanoi he was known as "Comrade Soldier", a title he shared only with Lenin and Ho Chi Minh. 1083:. Costs were awarded against Burchett. Burchett appealed and lost. In their 1976 judgement, the appeal court judges found that Kane's article was not a fair report of the Senate speech. The jury's verdict, however, they concluded, arose out of the failure of Burchett's lawyer to argue his client's case and was not an error of the court. It was also impractical to recall the international witnesses for a retrial. 1122:
Washington testimony of Yuri Krotkov". Manne wrote that Krotkov "was not a liar and a perjurer, but a truth-teller". Conversely, Tom Heenan, from the National Centre for Australian Studies, was not convinced by the evidence Manne quoted and wrote that, if the KGB had given money to Burchett, it had been shortchanged, since Burchett had moved away from Soviet Communism and towards the Chinese by the 1960s.
811:(UK), he wrote that "Cambodia has become a worker-peasant-soldier state", and, because its new constitution "guarantees that everyone has the right to work and a fair standard of living", it was, Burchett believed, "one of the most democratic and revolutionary constitutions in existence anywhere". At the time, he believed his friend, former prince 1001:"This man is a native of Poowong and his past life has been such that his activities are worth watching closely. He is an expert linguist and has travelled extensively. A comparatively young man who married a German Jewess with a grown family, he seldom misses an opportunity to speak and act against the interests of Britain and Australia". 718:, Burchett wrote about his view of the coming crisis in Western imperialism in Asia. In particular he said that "the British Raj in India and the Kuomintang dictatorship (in China) represent decaying systems of government" and "immediately the war ended, subject people in the East began to rise" to take their "freedom and independence". 1086:
Historian Gavan McCormack has said in Burchett's defence that his only dealings with Australian POWs were "trivial incidents" in which he "helped" them. With regard to other POWs, McCormack stated that their allegations were at variance with earlier statements which either explicitly cleared Burchett
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My main interest in the camps was to interview American airmen. The testimony of those who admitted to taking part in germ warfare has already been published. I talked to all of these airmen at length and on several occasions. I am convinced that the statements they made are accurate and were made of
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to write articles dismissing the reports of radiation sickness as part of Japanese efforts to undermine American morale. Laurence, who was also being paid by the US War Department, wrote the articles the US military wanted even though he was aware of the effects of radiation after observing the first
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and organising for photographs of Dean to be taken. The US had claimed that Dean had been killed by the North Koreans and had intended using his death as leverage in negotiations with the North Koreans. It was consequently angry that Burchett reported he was alive. In his autobiography Dean entitled
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In Hiroshima, 30 days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly – people who were uninjured by the cataclysm – from an unknown something which I can only describe as atomic plague. Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city.
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In 1955, Burchett's British passport went missing, believed stolen, and the Australian Government refused to issue a replacement and asked the British to do the same. He again requested an Australian passport in 1960 and 1965 but was denied both times. A further request in July 1968 was rejected by
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was dropped, arriving alone by train from Tokyo on 2 September, the day of the formal surrender of Japan, after a thirty-hour train trip in breach of MacArthur's orders. He was unarmed, and carrying rations for seven meals, a black umbrella and a Baby Hermes typewriter. During his reporting, he ran
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from Germany, and they married in 1938 in Hampstead. He visited Germany in 1938 before returning to Australia with his wife in 1939. After his return to Australia he wrote letters to newspapers warning against the danger of German and Japanese militarism. After the declaration of war by England, he
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The July memorandum was written by the chairman of the KGB and addressed to the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. It mentioned that Burchett had agreed to work in Moscow on "condition" that he receive "a monetary subsidy, and also the opportunity of unpublicised collaboration in the
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The US military's Far Eastern Command (FEC) wanted to silence Burchett by "exfiltrating" him from North Korea but its request to the Australian government for permission, which included a $ 100,000 inducement (over $ 1,000,000 in 2022 dollars), was turned down. Instead, the FEC established a smear
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During his time in Vietnam he had access to the North Vietnamese leadership and the South's National Liberation Front. He tried to help the British and US governments in obtaining the release of captured American airmen. In 1967, he had a significant interview with the North Vietnamese foreign
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was released in 1981. The film showed how Burchett was criticised in Australia for his coverage of "the other side" in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and posed the questions: "Can a democracy tolerate opinions it considers subversive to its national interest? How far can freedom of the press be
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and was, therefore, a major embarrassment for the US military. In response, US officials accused Burchett of being under the sway of Japanese propaganda. Burchett lost his press accreditation and he was ordered to leave Japan, although this order was later withdrawn. In addition, his camera,
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used these documents to update "Agent of Influence: Reassessing Wilfred Burchett", his 2008 article in which he examined Burchett's relationship with a number of communist governments in Europe and Asia. Manne concluded in 2013 that "Every detail in the KGB memorandum is consistent with the
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in 1949, opened a file on the whole Burchett family in the 1940s. Australian security was concerned by Burchett's father's interest in helping Jewish refugees in Melbourne, and his views on the Soviet Union and republican China. A document on Burchett's own file dated February 1944 noted:
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He was a politically engaged anti-imperialist who always placed himself amongst the people and events about whom he was reporting. His reporting antagonised both the US and Australian governments and he was effectively exiled from Australia for almost 20 years before the incoming
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after his historic space flight. Describing Gagarin, Burchett wrote that "the first impression was of his good-natured personality; big smile -- a grin, really -- light step and an air of sunny friendliness ... His hands are incredibly hard; his eyes an almost luminous blue".
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agent who the British passed on to the Americans. In November 1969, Krotkov testified before the US Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security that Burchett had been his agent when he worked as a KGB controller. Others he named as agents and contacts included, implausibly,
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a chapter "My Friend Wilfred Burchett" and wrote "I like Burchett and am grateful to him". He expressed thanks for Burchett's "special kindness" in improving his conditions, communicating with his family, and giving him an "accurate" briefing on the state of the war.
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containing photos of Hiroshima, was confiscated while he was documenting persistent illness at a Tokyo hospital. The film was sent to Washington and classified secret before being released in 1968. US military encouraged the journalist
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minister, Nguyen Duy Trinh in which Nguyen provided the first indication that the North Vietnamese government was interested in peace talks. He played a role in trying to organise informal talks during the 1968 peace talks in Paris.
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had threatened commercial airlines with steep penalties for flying Burchett into the country. He was allowed entry, triggering a media sensation. In 1972, an Australian passport was finally issued to Burchett by the incoming
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as "a seething cauldron in which hissed and bubbled a witches' brew of rival French and American imperialisms spiced with feudal warlordism and fascist despotism" and decried the government of South Vietnam under
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wrote that "in Korea, the truth was that Burchett and Winnington were a better source of news than the UN information officers, and if the allied reporters did not see them they risked being beaten on stories".
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describes Burchett's view of "the way in which Australian culture and mores, as they emerged from the pioneers' experience, could develop in harmony with those of the liberated peoples in neighbouring Asia".
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spy" and a "tool of American and British intelligence". Burchett praised the post-war Stalinist purges in Bulgaria: the "Bulgarian conspirators were the left arm of the Hungarian reactionary right arm".
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in 1911 to George Harold and Mary Jane Eveline Burchett (née Davey). His father was a builder, a farmer, and a Methodist lay preacher with radical convictions who "imbued with a progressive approach to
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and the establishment for him of a monthly subsidy in the sum of 4;000 roubles". On 25 October, the Central Committee accepted the KGB's request but reduced the monthly payment to 3;000 roubles.
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It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. I write these facts as dispassionately as I can in the hope that they will act as a warning to the world.
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about the desperate situation there. The Phnom Penh government drew up a list of required emergency relief which Burchett took to London, where he read it out at an all-party meeting in the
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increased funding for the war in Vietnam, Burchett wrote: "No peasants anywhere in the world had so many dollars per capita lavished on their extermination". He described
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in Berlin after the second world war and they met again when Burchett moved to Moscow in 1957. Krotkov defected to Britain in the early 1960s. He had been a low-ranking
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accused Burchett, in the Senate, of being a KGB operative and tabled Krotkov's testimony. In November 1971, the DLP published details of Gair's speech in its pamphlet,
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In 1962, Burchett began writing on the war in Vietnam, from the North Vietnamese side. Beginning in November 1963, Burchett spent six months in southern Vietnam with
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camps in North Korea, comparing one to a "luxury resort", a "holiday resort in Switzerland", which angered POWs who had been held under conditions that violated the
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suggested Burchett had concocted the claim that the USA was engaging in germ warfare and pointed out the similarity of the allegations to a science fiction story by
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in 1955. His son George was born in Hanoi, and grew up in Moscow and France. He lived in Hanoi and edited some of his father's writings and produced a documentary.
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In his autobiography, Burchett later admitted that he began to have doubts about the trials when one of the Bulgarians repudiated his signed confession. Hungarian
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wrote: "he will be remembered by many as one of the more remarkable agents of influence of the times, but by his Australian and other admirers as a folk hero".
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After Burchett reported from North Korea about the use of germ warfare by the Americans, the Australian government looked at charging him with treason. It sent
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MacArthur had imposed restrictions on journalists' access to bombed cities, and had censored reports of the destruction caused by the bombing of Hiroshima and
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Soviet press". The memorandum also contained a description of Burchett's background and a request for him to be paid "a one-time subsidy in the sum of 20,000
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In 1937 Burchett left Australia for London by ship. There he found work in a Jewish travel agency Palestine & Orient Lloyd Ltd which resettled Jews from
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in 1947. Krotkov also said that Burchett had worked as an agent for both Vietnam and China and was a secret member of the Communist Party of Australia.
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newspaper in London on 5 September 1945. Entitled "The Atomic Plague", and with the subtitle "I Write This as a Warning to the World", it began:
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for promoting the United States Army Air Force and later referred to the group as "housetrained reporters" participating in a "cover-up". His
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had joined the US boycott of Vietnam and suspended all food aid to both Vietnam and Cambodia. However, Jim Howard, a technical officer for
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wrote that "If any one man is responsible for alerting Western opinion to the struggle of the people of Vietnam, it is Wilfred Burchett".
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Conservative Australian governments between 1949 and 1970 tried to construct a case to prosecute Burchett but were unable to do so.
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which grew so large due to the additional pages that needed to be added each time he travelled, that Burchett said he needed an
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On this "scoop of the century", which had a worldwide impact, Burchett's byline was incorrectly given as "by Peter Burchett".
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As relations between Cambodia and Vietnam deteriorated, and after Burchett visited refugee camps in 1978, he condemned the
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as "the greatest man I’ve ever met, with all the modesty and simplicity that goes with human greatness". He once described
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Bukovsky Archives online, 25 October 1957, Request from KGB for regular financial assistance for Wilfred Burchett (5 pp)
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guerrillas, staying in their fortified hamlets and travelling underground in their network of narrow tunnels. When US
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On 21 December 1951, Burchett achieved a major scoop by interviewing the most senior United Nations POW, US General
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wrote that Burchett regretted this analogy, but said that the factual basis of the description was confirmed by POW
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Pacific Treasure Island: New Caledonia: Voyage through its Land and Wealth the Story of its People and Past
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as "an Asian neo-fascism no less dangerous for world peace than...European fascism" was during the 1930s.
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newspaper. Lockhart thought the "involved narrator" present in Burchett's writing was similar to that of
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agents to Japan and Korea to collect evidence but in early 1954, conceded it could not prosecute him.
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published a front-page story with the headline 'No radioactivity in Hiroshima ruin'. Military censors
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Southern Africa Stands Up: The Revolutions in Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa
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For his part, Tibor MĂ©ray alleged that Burchett was an undercover party member but not a KGB agent.
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In 1975 and 1976, Burchett sent a number of dispatches from Cambodia praising the new government of
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was at the meeting and was moved to arrange for the first significant Western relief to Cambodia.
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journalist Tony Ferguson filmed an interview with Burchett in Phnom Penh. According to filmmaker
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McCormack, Gavan (1986), "Korea: Wilfred Burchett's Thirty Year's War", in Ben Kiernan, edited,
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said "When he saw injustice and hardship, he criticised those he believed responsible for it".
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campaign against Burchett with the backing of the Australian government. Australian journalist
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Burchett investigated and confirmed claims by the North Korean government that the US had used
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when he heard on the radio that "the world’s first A-bomb had been dropped on a place called
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was given access by the Russian government to classified documents from the archives of the
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The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Kosovo,
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Gavan McCormack, "Korea: Burchett's Thirty Years' War," in Ben Kiernan (ed.), 1986, p. 169.
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In a 1983 interview, Burchett said he grew disillusioned with China over its position in
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Not Always on Horseback: An Australian Correspondent at War and Peace in Asia, 1961–1993
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Not Always on Horseback: An Australian Correspondent at War and Peace in Asia, 1961–1993
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Not Always on Horseback: An Australian Correspondent at War and Peace in Asia, 1961–1993
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Other documents on Burchett's file show ASIO was concerned by his scathing criticism of
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Burchett began his career in journalism in 1940 when he obtained accreditation with the
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Vietnam Will Win! Why the People of South Vietnam have Already Defeated US Imperialism
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became sought after as "one of the last Australians to leave Germany before the war".
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and the United States. It was in this job that he met Erna Lewy, née Hammer, a Jewish
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was never shown in full on Australian television because the ABC refused to buy it.
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Fallout : the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world
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article a fair report of the 1971 Senate speech by Gair and therefore protected by
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atomic bomb test on 16 July 1945, and its effect on local residents and livestock.
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In 2011 Vietnam celebrated Burchett's 100th birthday with an exhibition in the
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Burchett's report was the first in the Western media to mention the effects of
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which said there was no evidence to justify its continued denial. Writing in
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Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist : The Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett
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During his return visits to Moscow in the early 1990s, veteran dissident
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accused Burchett of dishonesty regarding the trials and the subsequent
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Burchett wrote a play "based on the Hungarian spy trials", entitled
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Gavan McCormack, "Korea", in Kiernan (ed.), 1986, pp. 190–194.
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Burchett met and married his first wife Erna Lewy, a German Jewish
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Robert Manne, "Agent of Influence: Reassessing Wilfred Burchett",
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to carry it. While Burchett was attending a conference in Cuba,
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in 1951 when Burchett was there, may have influenced his style.
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In 1961, Burchett was the first western journalist to interview
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s publisher. In preparing his case, Kane received support from
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In 1956, Burchett arrived in Moscow as a correspondent for the
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a 25,000 word story about the bombing of Nagasaki submitted by
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as a foreign correspondent for the French communist newspaper
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Burchett returned to Australia in 1950 and campaigned against
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Heenan, Kiernan, Lockhart, Macintyre & McCormack (2008),
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Gavan McCormack, "Korea", in Ben Kiernan (ed.), 1986, p. 170.
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The jury found Burchett had been defamed, but considered the
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Burchett published numerous books about Vietnam and the war.
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John Pilger interviewed Burchett as part of his 1983 series
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known for being the first western journalist to report from
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My War with the CIA: The Memoirs of Prince Norodom Sihanouk
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The Changing Tide: a play based on the Hungarian spy trials
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Greg Lockhart analysed Burchett's writing in an article in
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Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World, 1939-1983
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Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World, 1939–1983
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Catapult to Freedom: The Survival of the Vietnamese People
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The Australian national security department, which became
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learned about his passport problem, and issued him with a
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Gavan McCormack, "Korea", in Kiernan (ed.), 1986, p. 198.
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Chapter 16: Hiroshima Cover-up: How the War Department's
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Burchett moved to Bulgaria in 1982 and died of cancer in
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Rebel journalism : the writings of Wilfred Burchett
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after Gagarin's historic first flight into outer space (
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Exploding the Myths. The Political Memoirs of Jack Kane
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From Traveller to Traitor. The Life of Wilfred Burchett
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in which it was supporting the "same side as the CIA".
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After three years in Greece and Berlin working for the
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The Furtive War: The United States in Vietnam and Laos
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The Furtive War-The United States in Vietnam and Laos
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Burchett next travelled to the then Chinese capital,
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At the Barricades: The Memoirs of a Rebel Journalist
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The last attempt was in 1970, when attorney-general
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Second Indochina War : Cambodia and Laos Today
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(2007). 1323:, (1953), British-China Friendship Association 419:dispatch was printed on the front page of the 2942: 2705:, Allen and Unwin, St Leonards, 1997, p. 198. 1329:Mekong Upstream: A Visit to Laos and Cambodia 1012: 2131: 2129: 2127: 2125: 2123: 2121: 2119: 2117: 2115: 1737: 1735: 1733: 1731: 1729: 1727: 1725: 1723: 1721: 1661: 1659: 1657: 1655: 1653: 1651: 1649: 1647: 1645: 1507:Grasshoppers and Elephants: Why Vietnam Fell 1466:Vietnam: The Inside Story of a Guerrilla War 1452:(1963), International Publishers - New York. 1422:edited by Nick Shimmin and George Burchett, 1358:"The struggle for Korea's national rights". 1338:. New York: International Publishers. 1968. 1306:(1952), World Unity Publications, Melbourne. 1292:(1950), World Unity Publications, Melbourne. 1247:(1951), World Unity Publications, Melbourne. 921:in a privately chartered light plane as the 899:. 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(1 November 1981). 1693: 1630:from the original on 22 September 2020 1613: 1611: 1609: 1607: 1568:"Burchett, Wilfred Graham (1911–1983)" 1562: 1268:(1944), David McKay Co., Philadelphia. 677:newspaper, while also writing for the 360:Pacific Treasure Island: New Caledonia 2930: 2739: 2360:from the original on 28 February 2020 2347: 2287: 2250:William F Dean and William L Worden, 2090:A Compendium of Communist Biographies 1830: 1605: 1603: 1601: 1599: 1597: 1595: 1593: 1591: 1589: 1587: 1560: 1558: 1556: 1554: 1552: 1550: 1548: 1546: 1544: 1542: 1509:(1977), Urizen Books Inc. - New York. 583:and the American radical publication 557:. After six months in China he wrote 547:. In 1951, Burchett travelled to the 178: 3600:War correspondents of the Korean War 2396:"Books: On Burchett, by Tibor MĂ©ray" 2202:from the original on 15 October 2012 1156:Nick Shimmin, co-editor of the book 815:, was part of the leadership group. 656:In his study of war correspondents, 362:. 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Sofia
Bulgaria
Central Sofia Cemetery
Journalist
Stephanie Alexander
journalist
Hiroshima
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Korea
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Second World War
war in the Pacific
Cambodia
Pol Pot
germ warfare
Yuri Gagarin
Vostok 1
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Melbourne
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Soviet Union
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Gippsland
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