Known and well known for thirty years mate.
And there's another base a bit further south the name of which I've forgotten -
probably wisely.
Originally set up to monitor phone conversations as soon as most long distance
connexions went microwave.
It's been listening to the Chinese for a very long time.
And was a major link in the VLF nuclear submarine communication network.
A bit of a running sore, partly because the murkins refused to share
information with he Australian intelligence services unless they thought it was
relevant to Australia (yeah, sure) and made it perfectly clear that any
objection to that was NOT ON THE TABLE, OK?! The Australian liaison staff
tended to feel a bit - surplus to requirement.
Back before 1990 it was clearly the #1 nuclear target in Oz - leading to the
comment that we were being 'defended to death' by out friends.
It was hardly a secret that it was the primary intelligence gathering point in
this quarter/third of the sphere and that it would be upgraded continuously to
cover the Indian Ocean rim.
So I think you can relax Brian - they're looking North and North West - NZ is
not high on their list of priorities.
Andrew Fildes (who wonders occasionally if he has his very own secret police
file or is merely an appendix in those of a couple of his friends).
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On 24/07/2013, at 4:44 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> I have wondered for maybe ten years how it was that the USA, Israel, and
> other countries could pin-point with deadly accuracy and in real time, such
> things as the movement of missile shipments in Syria, terrorist leaders in
> Indonesia, internal military leaders in Gaza (even in moving vehicles), and
> other people with identified cell-phones.
> While these tiny devices are switched on and constantly communicating with
> the cell network, by huge amplification of the signals and triangulation of
> signals within a network of satellites sitting in stationary orbit around the
> equator, their location can be plotted continuously within seconds, and the
> results of that plotting conveyed to the Utah (and elsewhere) based pilots of
> drones.and controllers of fighter aircraft ( as in Israel.)
>
> Details of the vital Australian involvement in this activity were revealed
> yesterday in several NZ Fairfax print newspapers - but not on line.
> However, one important Aussie paper DOES have it on line - at the
> moment.
> Pine gap is in a piece of stunning landscape near Alice Springs; the image
> in the following article does not quite match others the same that I have
> saved..
> Here we go --- http://tinyurl.com/knpv76x
>
> If you wish to look at this, I recommend not delaying. Chances are that the
> page will be taken down before too long.
>
> Who would have thought that the tiny device that I usually leave at home
> when going out - and for which my daughter chides me - could in other
> circumstances lead to my instant death. Talk about Big Brother watching
> over you.
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