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Rex Chiplin (1915-1990) journalist, Communist
Birth: 25 March 1915 at Kempsey, New South Wales, youngest of three sons of native-born parents Percy Valentine Chiplin (1884-1919), clerk of petty sessions, and Grace Susan Glasson, née Carter (1890-1968). Marriages: (1) 1944 in Sydney to Annette Elizabeth Moore. The marriage ended in divorce. (2) 29 August 1951 in the Registrar General’s office, Sydney, to Melbourne-born Vivienne Napier Bon. They had one daughter and one son before the marriage ended in divorce. Death: 17 October 1990 in a nursing home at Murwillumbah, NSW.
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Nicholas Whitlam and John Stubbs, Nest of Traitors: the Petrov affair (Sydney, 1974); Manne, The Petrov affair: politics and espionage, (Sydney, 1987); David McKnight, Australia’s spies and their secrets (Sydney, 1994); Desmond Ball & David Horner, Breaking the codes: Australia’s KGB network 1944-1950) (Sydney, 1998); John Playford Doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, 1945-1962, PhD thesis, ANU, 1962; Tribune (Sydney), 9 March 1955.
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Tribune (Sydney), 12 March 1949, p 1
25 March,
1915
Kempsey,
New South Wales,
Australia
17 October,
1990
(aged 75)
Murwillumbah,
New South Wales,
Australia