 A declassified "top secret" ASIO Minute from 1974 indicates that ASIO officers had "considerable doubts" at the time about the truthfulness of the young woman who claimed to be the connection between Wheeldon and the suspected Soviet agents, and that these doubts were not reflected in the file specifying the young woman's accusations against Wheeldon.The note suggests that the file Spry used to brief Prime Minister's Holt and Gorton did not reflect these doubts, either.According to Ian Hancock's biography of John Gorton, in 1968 Spry sought to block Wheeldon's fiancée, Judith Werner (now Judith Wheeldon) from entering Australia on the grounds that her father was a member of the Communist Party, USA, but "Gorton would have none of it.