In reality this conceals the real purpose of Pine Gap as a CIA-run spy base designed to collect signals from US surveillance satellites in geosynchronous orbit over the equator. The six “peace ...

The Northern Territory has long had unique ties to the United States, from the several thousand of Marines deployed to Darwin each year to the Pine Gap spy base in Central Australia. Only weeks ...

Dive into the murky world of spies, lies and secrets surrounding the most secretive place in Australia. Pine Gap has been called a space base, a spy base, an obscenity hidden on the fringe of an ...

Whitlam would cause alarm in Washington when he refused to commit to extending Pine Gap's future ... wild political tensions surrounding the spy base in Australia's backyard.