David Rosenberg: Inside Pine Gap

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data:

Rosenberg, David.

Inside Pine Gap: the spy who came in from the desert / David Rosenberg.

ISBN: 9781742701738 (pbk.)

Subjects: Rosenberg, David.

Spies--United States--Biography.

Military bases, American--Northern Territory.

Military surveillance--Northern Territory.

Pine Gap (N.T.)

355.70994

Cover and text design by Peter Daniel

Typeset in ITC New Baskerville 10.3/17.3pt

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Printed and bound in Australia by Griffin Press

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyolite/Aquacade

See Appendix A.

See Appendix B.

Kealy, The Pine Gap Saga.

Ball, Pine Gap , pp. 33–54.

ibid.

ibid., p. xiii.

‘Electronic Vacuum Cleaner in the Sky’, Sun (Sydney), 4 May 1977, p. 45; and ‘CIA Involvement in Australian Affairs’, Four Corners , ABC Television, 17 May 1977, transcript, p. 4.

Bamford, Body of Secrets , Chapter 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance#Compartmented_Information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bloomberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Pelton

Ball, A Suitable Piece of Real Estate , p. 39.

Bamford, Body of Secrets , Chapter 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Shield#Operation_Desert_Shield

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1966/17.html

Charlston, Jeffery A, Filling the Gap: Building the Joint Defence Facility, 40th Anniversary Edition 1967–2007 , (Pine Gap: 2007), inside front cover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anzus. The Australia New Zealand—United States (ANZUS) Treaty, signed in 1951, obliges Australia and New Zealand, and separately Australia and the United States, to cooperate on Pacific-area defence issues. In 1986, the United States suspended treaty obligations with New Zealand over New Zealand’s refusal to allow nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed ships into New Zealand ports.

Charlston, Jeffery A, Filling the Gap: Building the Joint Defence Facility, 40th Anniversary Edition 1967–2007 , (Pine Gap: 2007), p. 9.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/rhyolite.htm

Ball, Desmond, ‘The US-Australian Alliance: The Strategic Essence’, paper prepared for the Australian Journal of International Affairs , July 2001, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, Canberra, July 2001, p. 7.

ibid.

Ball, Pine Gap , p. 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Reconnaissance_Office

Ball, Pine Gap , p. 1.

Richelson & Ball, The Ties that Bind , p. 190.

Kealy, The Pine Gap Saga , p. 10 (Introduction).

Richelson & Ball, The Ties that Bind , p. 177.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falcon_and_the_Snowman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_geolocation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_emergency_frequency

Some people believe that Australian and US taxpayers have a ‘right to know’ what happens at Pine Gap since their tax dollars support the facility. However, for Pine Gap to operate effectively, details on how Pine Gap performs its mission and the value of the intelligence collected must remain classified. Just as companies have information that they must safeguard in order to protect their business (the secret recipe for Coke® is a simple example), governments are within their rights to classify and withhold sensitive information required to protect their citizens.