Long before the NSA was reading our email and listening in on our phone calls, there was D Special Section – a crack team of code-breakers who helped turn the tide in the Second World War by listening in on Japanese diplomatic cables. Now their story is being told, reports BELINDA CRANSTON.

David Sissons was a shy academic. He quietly worked away at the Department of International Relations at ANU for decades, researching, publishing and making discoveries.

While he is sadly no longer with us, his presence and his remarkable findings are still being felt.

His knowledge of a clandestine code-breaking organisation is out in the open, after colleagues in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific resuscitated his painstaking research years after his death.

Read the entire article on the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific's news page.