About the Book

In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of
a jointly run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than
forty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy and been the target of much
public and political controversy.
For the first time, a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for 18 years
speaks out to give an insider's account of what happens behind those locked
gates in the middle of the Australian desert. The author details his career with an
American intelligence agency during a tumultuous period in history that covered
the terms of three American Presidents, four Australian Prime Ministers, the
end of the Cold War, a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, two wars in Iraq,
genocide in Rwanda, as well as the 'War against Terror' and the emergence of
North Korea as a nuclear-armed nation.
This is a fascinating glimpse inside the top-secret world of military surveillance.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 256 pages

Publication Date: Jun. 1st, 2011

Publisher: Hardie Grant Books

ISBN-10: 1742701736

ISBN-13: 9781742701738

Series: Not Applicable

Language: English

• Categories: Military Biographies & Military Autobiographies General Australia New Zealand History