In handing over the confiscated broadsheets and files of the Brisbane-based migrant newspaper, L’Italiano (1930-1941), to the Director General of Security in 1943, the Italian-language translator for Queensland’s Security Service added a report. In it he named 33 Italian migrant men living across three states from his examination of the personal correspondence and business letters to L’Italiano’s newspaper editors. He suggested that all were conceivably implicated in a fascist ring. Seventeen of these men have official wartime records although not all were interned. Whether anti-fascist or fascist, the Italian migrant community press was one means for incriminating potential saboteurs individually or en masse for internment during World War II. L’Italiano itself has never resurfaced. What can the fragmentary evidence within the archives tell us about the individual life stories of a mistaken fascist organisation? This paper pieces together the personal narratives of three fairly inconspicuous migrants living in Sydney to explore the complications of fascist politics. Framing a lost newspaper from criminalised documents and the public media opens up a cultural heritage of equally silent migrant experiences.