AUSSIES AREA 51 CALLED PINE GAP ONCE DETERING THE USSR NOW PUTS THE SAME CHECK ON CHINA'S EMPIRE EXPANSION ACROSS ASIA INCLUDING THE SOUTH SEA - AS PINE GAP STRATEGIC SPEAR HEAD OF SURVIELLANCE CRUCIAL TO THE MISSILE DEFENSE AND TARGETING THE ENEMY WORLDWIDE

WHAT DOES PINE GAP DO?
It’s a secret, at least as far as the US and Australian governments are concerned, but here’s what we do know.
The facility, which is 20km southwest of Alice Springs has been in existence since 1970.
Run by both Australia and the United States, its official name is the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap.
It has three surveillance systems but primarily serves as the ground control station for geosynchronous signals intelligence (SIGINT) satellites developed by the CIA.


It was originally used to collect information on Soviet missile testing, but its purpose has grown in recent years and now has 33 antennas, mostly satellite dishes in radomes.
More recently it has grown to be used to intercept phones and satellite communications.
Pine Gap also hosts a remote ground station for US early warning satellites.
It collects signals intelligence, provides details on early warning ballistic missile launches, as well as providing battlefield intelligence data for United States armed forces operating in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
It also contributes to and collects data used for US drones.

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