He portrayed himself as James Bond, but his spy claims were a mirage
Kenneth Easton Cook said he had unmasked a network of Australians preparing to sell out their country to the Japanese. His lies changed Australian history.
In the 1930s, longstanding Australian fears of a Japanese invasion, and a corresponding suspicion of the Japanese community in Australia, were fuelled by Japan’s growing military might and its brutal war of aggression in China. Australian War Memorial