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Pine Gap is a joint United States-Australian satellite communications and signals intelligence surveillance base and Australian Earth station approximately 18 km (11 mi) south-west of the town of Alice Springs.
Born at the height of the Cold War, Pine Gap was presented to the Australian public in 1966 as a space research facility. But behind the scenes, the station was run by the C.I.A. to collect...
With Parker Sawyers, Jacqueline McKenzie, Steve Toussaint, Tess Haubrich. Set in the intensely secretive world of intelligence and the enigmatic US/Australia joint defence facility in central Australia, the spy-thriller Pine Gap delves into the famously strong alliance between the two countries.
Pine Gap is perhaps the most important United States intelligence facility outside that country, playing a vital role in the collection of a very wide range of signals intelligence, providing early warning ballistic missile launches, targetting of nuclear weapons, providing battlefield intelligence data for United States armed forces operating ...
Protesters have blocked access to joint Australian-US Defence facility Pine Gap for the second time in just over a month. What's driving the repeat protests at the highly secretive site?
Pine Gap “plays a significant role in supporting both intelligence activities and military operations,” according to a top-secret NSA report dated from April 2013. One of its key functions is...
Hidden in ranges around eighteen kilometres south of Alice Springs, Pine Gap is Australia's most secretive spy base. For almost sixty years, it has operated in silence and been protected by extreme secrecy. But why is it there? Why that location, and what goes on there?