Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap

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Label

Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap

Title remainder

the secret history of Pine Gap

Statement of responsibility

Tom Gilling

Creator

• Gilling, Tom
• trueGilling, Tom, 1961-

Author

• Gilling, Tom

Subject

• Cold War -- Australia -- History
• trueIntelligence service
• Intelligence services -- Australia -- History
• Joint Defence Space Research Facility (Pine Gap, N.T.)
• trueMilitary bases, American
• Military bases, American -- Australia
• Military bases, American -- Northern Territory -- History
• trueMilitary satellites
• Military surveillance -- Australia
• trueAustralia -- Military relations -- United States
• trueNorthern Territory
• truePine Gap (N.T.)
• Pine Gap (N.T.) -- History
• trueSecret service
• trueSpies
• trueSurveillance
• trueUnited States -- Military relations -- Australia
• United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
• Military surveillance -- Northern Territory -- History
• trueAustralia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• trueCold War

Language

eng

Summary

Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it? At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in Central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing to do with research and was joint in name only: Australians were hired as cooks and cleaners but the first spies were all American. The job of the satellites controlled from Pine Gap was to eavesdrop on Soviet missile tests. While government ministers denied that Australia was a nuclear target, bureaucrats in Canberra secretly planned for Armageddon in the suburbs of Alice Springs. No longer just a listening station, Pine Gap has metamorphosed into a key weapon in the Pentagon's war on terror, with Australians in frontline roles. Drawing on declassified documents in Australian and US archives, Tom Gilling's explosive new book tells, for the first time, the uncensored story of Australia's most secret place

Cataloging source

VHEI

Dewey number

355.7

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult