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Pine Gap, Australia
- jerrysievert 8y agothere's a tv show of the same name: a fictionalized drama - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7371868/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7371868/ it appears to be available on netflix in the us
- selimthegrim 8y agoFalcon and the Snowman is an underrated film peeking into the geopolitics of this in the 70s
- azylman 8y agoThis comes up in a lot of Australian TV, like Pine Gap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Gap_(TV_series)) and Secret City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_City_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_City_(TV_series))
- joshka 8y agoWhy is this news?
- celeritascelery 8y agoIt’s not news. It’s an interesting article. I certainly didn’t know about this.
- A2017U1 8y agoIt's quite amusing how many Australians don't even know of it's existence, nor of the leeway it buys us in international relations. Even more obscure is the Harold Holt Naval Communication Station and it's immense value to US Submarines in the Indian ocean. Darkly(Hilariously?) named after an Australian PM who drowned at sea.
- deogeo 8y agoInteresting. I wonder how many foreign military outposts the US has within its borders.
- celeritascelery 8y agoProbably a lot fewer then it has in others.
- fowl2 8y ago800 is a lot of people. What do they all do, and why do they have to do it from a satellite downlink?
- kdtsh 8y agoWe have no idea, but their work is apparently a key contributor to ECHELON.