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Pine Gap
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Facts:
In 1967 a
facility was built in Central Australia just 19km by road from
Alice Springs town centre. It is wrapped up in secrecy as are
most defence installations around the world. It is located at
the end of Hatt Road on the South Stuart Highway near the Roe
Creek crossing. Hatt Road was named after Edwin Hatt who was
the Australian man who designed the Pine Gap facility. It is
said that approximately 800 people are employed at the
facility making it the largest single employer in Central
Australia. Of the people who work there it is said that only
about half are U.S. citizens. The remainder being Australians
except, according to a Source, are a very small number who are
British employees. It is an unusual facility as there are so
many rumours that go around about the place and due to the
secrecy, few people are in a position to prove or disprove
what the rumours suggest. Thus many rumours abound with some
rumour mongers possibly attempting to out-do the others.
The SIGINT
gathering station at Pine Gap near Alice Springs is quite
possibly one of the most secretive satellite ground stations
in the world, and is one of the largest. Pine Gap receives
data from a number of geostationary SIGINT satellites, most
notably from the satellite's that were manufactured by TRW
Space Systems at Redondo Beach, California. These satellites
are under the control of the CIA which in turn answers to the
National Reconnaissance Office "NRO".
The original
code name for the Pine Gap facility was MERINO, but this is
now almost obsolete.
Claims:
Pine Gap is
linked by a 1400 mile long tunnel to North West Cape
(Submarine Station) and Submarines refuel at Pine Gap. The
facility has up to 9 underground levels The facility has an
escape tunnel for the workers to evacuate in the event of
nuclear attack The facility is built to withstand 3
simultaneous nuclear weapon strikes It is the number one
nuclear target in Australia It is a UFO guidance system as
many UFO's are seen flying in a straight line to or from the
facility. The facility is an Experimental Aircraft Testing
Station It is powered by a nuclear power plant Everybody who
works there are CIA. agents It is a CIA. employee training
facility It is a spy training centre People who work there are
followed and spied upon by CIA. agents to ensure they don't
leak information The U.S. Government are doing space research
in partnership with Aliens at the facility The facility is a
nuclear weapons construction factory The facility is a nuclear
weapons launching site The Facility is housing one single
giant nuclear missile with multiple war heads The facility is
a satellite receiving station and is spying on the world The
facility is the first stage of the U.S. 'Star Wars' weapons
project The facility is a chemical weapons plant
The Base:
Pine Gap is one
of the largest ground satellite stations in the world, at the
present time the facility currently contains eight large
radomes, an extremely large computer room and 20 or so
service, support buildings. The radomes that cover the large
antenna array's serve two purposes, one being to keep dust,
sand and other foreign objects out of the delicate equipment,
and two being to conceal the antenna's position from enemy spy
satellites.
The computer
room at the base is also unbelievably large encompassing
almost 5,600 square metres, so large in fact that the
operators use headsets to communicate with each other, also as
a matter of interest the computers at the station are mainly
IBM. The computer room itself is principally divided into 3
different divisions:
The Station
Keeping Section, which has responsibility for keeping the
satellites at their correct geo-stationary orbit. The Signals
Processing Office The Signals Analysis Section (SAS)
Speculation:
The United
States has three major bases in Australia. One is in South
Australia (Nurranger, near Woomera), another in New South
Wales, and the third (and by far the largest) is located
within about 230 km of the geographical centre of the
continent, not far to the west of Alice Springs (Northern
Territory), at the foothills of the southern slopes of the
MacDonnell Range. This base is completely underground, with
barely visible entrances to the surface. This 'Top Secret'
base is entirely financed by the United States Government, and
is officially known as the Joint Defence Space Research
Facility. When the JDSRF was first initiated, its aim was
scientific research for the supposed development of a space
defence technology. It is now known that since its inception,
its primary purpose was research into electromagnetic
propulsion.
Communication:
The Pine Gap
facility has a wide range of communication services at it's
disposal, (HF) radio, underground cable, Telstra telephone and
telex link, 2 satellite comm's terminals. As well as this the
base is serviced by the US Military Airlift Command which
physically carry tapes of intercepted signals back to the US
for further study. The primary landline communication link for
the base is provided by TELSTRA, via the trans-Pacific
under-sea cable sea system which links the US and Australia,
while AT&T maintain their end of the deal. Around 1968 a HF
antenna was installed in the northern edge of the facility,
with the international call sign VL5TY, this provides a direct
link to the US base Clark Field in the Philippines this
service operates on an estimated 16 frequencies from 4.048 MHz
to 23.69 MHz.
All
communications to or from Pine Gap are encrypted in either the
Signals Processing Office or the National Cypher and
communication's room. Two Univac computers are used to encrypt
the transmissions, while two cryptographic machines (a KW-7
and a KG-13 for teletype and voice encryption respectively)
communicate with the TRW's buildings in Redondo Beach,
California. Note these methods are only used for general
signals rather than SIGINT traffic, it is only when prompt
action is required from the US that the SIGINT traffic is
directed through this way.) The Communications Vault in TRW's
building M-4 (code named PEDAL) is a major point in the Pine
Gap communications system, of the 25 to 30 messages sent from
Pine Gap each day about half of these are directed to CIA
(code named PILOT) headquarters in Langley Virginia.
Occasionally SIGINT data is directed directly to the NRO
headquarters in the Pentagon or to the NSA headquarters at
Fort Meade, Maryland. Since 1969 there have been twice weekly
flights of C-141 Starlifter and Galaxy aircraft. These have 2
purposes 1 to deliver parts and supplies and 2 to collect the
thousands of reels of SIGINT gathered at Pine Gap each week.
Rumours:
What exactly is
Pine Gap? As strange as it may seem, even Australian Federal
Parliament members do not know. Among the Cabinet members,
only a small number of 'initiates' have a vague idea of what
this is all about. The only information source available to
the public is the cross-checking done by private researchers
following statements made by the United States or Australian
magazines (always very short and terse paragraphs), and
anything the locals may notice.
It is said that
under Pine Gap is the deepest drilling hole in Australia -
about 5 miles (more than 8,000 meters). Such a hole is likely
used as an underground antenna able to recharge the batteries
of submarines in the Pacific and Indian Ocean through ELF
broadcasts. Such a gigantic antenna could be used to generate
a gigantic stationary wave around the Earth. Some say that
Pine Gap has an enormous nuclear generator to supply energy to
a new type of transceiver. It seems too that there is a
high-powered, high-voltage plasma accelerator which may be put
to use to transmit electric current, or even to produce a
'death-ray', or quite simply to feed a plasma gun. All this is
not as incredible as it sounds: it is now known that the US
base of West Cape, near Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia
(Harold E. Holt USN Communication Station), has an older type
of the transceiver used at Pine Gap which is used to send
electric current to submerged US submarines who trail a wire
antenna. It is known that electric currents transmitted in
this way are referred to as 'plasmo-dynamic' cells.
Several times,
locals have seen white discs about 30 feet in diameter in the
process of being unloaded from large US cargo planes at the
airports serving Pine Gap. Those disks had the USAF emblem on
them. It seems likely that disks are assembled and based at
Pine Gap. The number of disks seen at night leaves no doubt in
anyone's mind.
An amazing
quantity of furniture has been delivered by plane from the
United States. The locals also say that an enormous amount of
food is stocked in warehouses of what could well be a true
multi-levelled underground city. On the other hand, Pine Gap
is well known as one of the most important control centres for
spy satellites which circle the globe. An article published in
late 1973 claimed that the Pine Gap installation, along with
its sister installation in Menwith Hill (UK), were used to
control the photographic missions of the large American
satellites in orbit above the Earth.
Pine Gap has
enormous computers which are connected to their American and
Australian central counterparts, which collect all the
information secured in these countries, not only about finance
and technology, but on every aspect of the life of the average
citizen. Those computers at Pine Gap are also evidently
connected to similar mainframes in Guam, in Krugersdorp South
Africa, and at the Amundsen-Scott US base at the South Pole.
Let us say, incidentally, that the employees (more than 1200)
of the US base in South Africa all claim to be members of the
US consular mission in that country. It may also be worthy of
note that the Amundsen-Scott base at the South Pole is located
on a sensitive magnetic spot of our planet, that it holds
exactly the same assets as Pine Gap, and that all the
information about most of the average citizens of Western
Europe is stored there in memory banks tens of meters under
the icepack.
Summary:
Pine Gap is
still essentially a black project designed purely for
espionage and covert intelligence gathering, but a number of
questions still remain, does the Australian government really
know what goes on out there? Just how big is this base?
Undoubtedly there would be underground level. As a SIGINT
station there is a big possibility that it would be a nuclear
target, going underground would certainly be a wise choice.
Pine Gap is
still the most important US installation in Australia. It's
purpose and functions are still the most secret. Where as
"all" other US installations in Australia have been
acknowledged, the Pine Gap SIGINT satellite program still
remains a BLACK program. The Australian public have been led
to believe that this area is only a "defence space research
facility".
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