Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling
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Project Rainfall: The Secret History of Pine Gap by Tom Gilling

TBM9781760528430
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ISBN: 9781760528430
Author: Tom Gilling
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2019
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor edgewear.

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 janitors but the first spies were all American.

The job of the satellites controlled by 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. (publisher blurb)

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