The Resource Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap, Tom Gilling
Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap, Tom Gilling
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The item Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap, Tom Gilling represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap
- Title
- Project Rainfall
- Title remainder
- the secret history of Pine Gap
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Gilling
- Subject
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- Intelligence services -- Australia -- History
- Joint Defence Space Research Facility (Pine Gap, N.T.)
- Military bases, American -- Australia
- Military bases, American -- Northern Territory -- History
- Australia -- Military relations -- United States
- Military surveillance -- Northern Territory -- History
- Pine Gap (N.T.) -- History
- United States -- Military relations -- Australia
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
- Military surveillance -- Australia
- Cold War -- Australia -- History
- 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
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gilling, Tom
- Dewey number
- 355.7
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Military surveillance
- Military bases, American
- Military bases, American
- Military surveillance
- Intelligence services
- Cold War
- Australia
- United States
- Pine Gap (N.T.)
- Joint Defence Space Research Facility (Pine Gap, N.T.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap, Tom Gilling
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066007427
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760528430
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1104072875
- Label
- Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap, Tom Gilling
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066007427
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 306 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760528430
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1104072875
Subject
- Intelligence services -- Australia -- History
- Joint Defence Space Research Facility (Pine Gap, N.T.)
- Military bases, American -- Australia
- Military bases, American -- Northern Territory -- History
- Australia -- Military relations -- United States
- Military surveillance -- Northern Territory -- History
- Pine Gap (N.T.) -- History
- United States -- Military relations -- Australia
- United States, Central Intelligence Agency -- History
- Military surveillance -- Australia
- Cold War -- Australia -- History
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