Mark Aarons

Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter on ABC Radio National for twenty years, and was the founding executive producer of Background Briefing . He is the author or co-author of six books, including investigations of war criminals in Australia and the Vatican's role in smuggling mass killers, and works on Israel, Western intelligence, and East Timor. His most recent book was The Family File , an account of four generations of the Aarons family who were members of the Communist Party of...See more

Mark Aarons was an investigative reporter on ABC Radio National for twenty years, and was the founding executive producer of Background Briefing . He is the author or co-author of six books, including investigations of war criminals in Australia and the Vatican's role in smuggling mass killers, and works on Israel, Western intelligence, and East Timor. His most recent book was The Family File , an account of four generations of the Aarons family who were members of the Communist Party of Australia over seven decades, based on the largest single collection of ASIO files in history. See less