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  Pine Gap 6 . Org
Pine Gap is a military spy base for the United States located 20 km outside Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Pine Gap is the biggest terrorist base in Australia, protected by secrecy and lies.
Pine Gap is an opportunity to directly challenge the use of Australia's land and airspace to facilitate the bombing of Iraq and others to come”.
www.pinegap6.org /info.html   (1624 words)

  
  Pine Gap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellite tracking station at 23.79780° S 133.7366° E near the city of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia that is owned and operated by the U.S. It consists of a large computer complex with eight radomes protecting antennae, and has over 800 employees.
With the closing of the Nurrungar base in 1999, an area in Pine Gap was set aside for the US Air Force's control station for infrared satellites that monitor heat emissions from missiles, giving first warning of ballistic missile launches.
Pine Gap is also the subject of many UFO reports, part of what is sometimes called Australia's version of Area 51, the portion of the Nevada desert on which much of America's UFO interest is focused.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pine_Gap   (469 words)

  
 Pine Gap
Pine Gap is the commonly used name for a satellite tracking station near the city of Alice Springs in the heart of Australia that is owned and operated by the U.S. It consists of a large computer complex with eight radomes protecting antennae, and has over 800 employees.
According to Prof Ball, since 9 December 1966 when the the Australian and US governments signed the Pine Gap treaty, Pine Gap has grown from the original two antennas to about a dozen and a half in 1999.
With the closing of the Nurrungar[?] base in 1999, an area in Pine Gap was set aside for the US Air Force's control station for infra-red satellites that monitor heat emissions from missiles, giving first warning of ballistic missile launches.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pi/Pine_Gap.html   (408 words)

  
 Pine Gap
Pine Gap, officially known as the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, is one of the largest and most important US satellite ground control stations in the world.
The first generation of satellites, launched in 1970 the year Pine Gap became operational, were designed to spy on Soviet missile developments and for general espionage in Asia.
Pine Gap's most important role is processing information gathered by Rhyolite signals intelligence (SIGINT) satellites and transmitting that information to the United States.
dollyoko.thing.net /DRINKSKY/TEXT/SPY.HTM   (615 words)

  
 UFO RESEARCH QUEENSLAND - Casefiles
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.
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.
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.
www.uforq.asn.au /casefiles/pinegap.html   (1537 words)

  
 Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
At the time the agreement to establish Pine Gap was signed by the Australian government it's purpose was to control and act as a downlink for geosynchronous satellites stationed over the Pacific and Asia.
Basically it acts as a backup facility to Pine Gap complete with extensive underground installations and an illegal nuclear reactor which has to be supplied with large amounts of water carried by a regular train service originating in the southern part of the state of South Australia.
Like Pine Gap, it is situated in an isolated area of low electromagnetic activity and sealed off from the public view by a security zone which is part of the 'Woomera Prohibited Area'.
www.unknowncountry.com /mindframe/opinion/print.phtml?id=64   (4242 words)

  
 national campaigns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Australia's Pine Gap satellite spy facilities are key to the MD proposal, acting as a command centre for the system providing early warning and tracking data.
Pine Gap is a military facility that has been used to target US bombing on Iraq and is currently assisting in targeting bombs against Afghanistan.
Pine Gap is a military spy base for the United States located in the middle of Australia.
www.foe.org.au /nc/nc_pine.htm   (1487 words)

  
 Pine Gap, 2
PINE GAP "The United States has three major bases in Australia.
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.
An article published in late 1973 claimed that the Pine Gap installation, along with its sister installation in Guam, were used to control the photographic missions of the large American satellites in orbit above the Earth.
www.ufocasebook.com /pinegap2.html   (633 words)

  
 Pine Gap Research Area
The SIGINT gathering station at Pine Gap near Alice Springs "Australia" is quite possibly, one of the most secretive satellite ground stations in the world, and is one of the largest in the world.
Pine Gap recieves 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.
Pine Gap as stated before is one of the largest ground satellite stations in the world, at the present time the facility currently contains eight large radomes an extremly large computer room and 20 or so service,support buildings.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Shadowlands/6583/bases011.html   (706 words)

  
 Pine Gap
Yet Pine Gap's arms treaty verification role is estimated to be as little as 0.3% of its activity.
Pine Gap is the most important installation and one of the largest satellite ground control stations in the world.
Pine Gap intercepted electronic and radio signals from the Iraqi forces and provided information on Iraqi air and ground defences, troop deployments and military infrastructure.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Shadowlands/6583/bases017.html   (1363 words)

  
 Pine gap - Central Australia 1978
The Pine Gap facility as it is informally known, is officially called the Joint Defense Space Research Facility; however, Australians refer to it as "Pine Gap" or just "The Gap".
During the early stages of the establishing of Pine Gap, the Director of DARPA was Stephen J. Lukasik.
Pine Gap has what is believed to be the deepest and straightest ’water bore’ in Australia drilled beneath it.
www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_offlimits_8a.htm   (1349 words)

  
 FS SecCon: Pine Gap Base: World Context   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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.
"The most disquieting fact about Pine Gap may be that the employees working on the base, and especially those earmarked for duty on electromagnetic propulsion projects, have undergone brainwashing and even implantation of intracranial devices.
If a Global confrontation is going to break out, those bases will serve as a place of safety for the politicians and their staff, as well as the international financiers, their family and friends.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/pinegap.htm   (1938 words)

  
 Pine Gap Base, Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Pine Gap is the deepest drilling hole in Australia, about 5 miles, more than 8,000 meters.
Pine Gap is well known as one of the most important control centers for spy satellites that circle the globe.
But the most disquiting fact about Pine Gap may be that the employees working on the base, and especially those earmarked for duty on the EMP Project, have undergone brainwashing and even implantation of intracranial devices.
members.aol.com /Boycottbrazil/BrazilByct/pine.html   (230 words)

  
 Pine Gap Protest a Success   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"Pine Gap is key in planning for war on Iraq and this is happening without the knowledge or consent of the Australian people," said Dimity Hawkins.
Federal and state based politicians are joining with giant puppets and protesters this morning at the Pine Gap facilities to oppose the use of the base for any war against Iraq.
The protest at the Pine Gap joint defence facility grew today as parliamentarians and doctors joined protesters and local residents at the gates in peaceful actions.
www.foe.org.au /mr/mr_3_10_02.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Pine Gap - AUS/US space warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Because of the secrecy surrounding PINE GAP, the Base is the focus of a national protest from 5-7 October this year, when its role will be challenged as “not being in Australia’s best interests” (to quote words often uttered by Prime Minister John Howard).
The presence of Pine Gap potentially brings many dangers to our country and the protest to be held there mirrors similar protests which have taken place against other American bases throughout the world, such as Menwith Hill in Britain and Vandenburg Air Force Base in the US itself.
Pine Gap serves American corporate interests by being part of a global spy network which draws down intelligence from the highly secret Echelon satellite system which is directed primarily against civilian objectives, governments, organisations and companies from practically every country in the world.
www.futureaustralia.net /spacecom/pinegap.asp   (963 words)

  
 Yorkshire CND - Australia's Secret War - 30/9/02
While details of the US presence at Pine Gap remain classified, it is generally known that the key US agencies are the National Reconnaissance Office (responsible for the design, construction and operation of US intelligence collection satellites), the National Security Agency (the US signals intelligence organisation) and the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Chief of the Pine Gap Facility is an American officer, Barbara Ely.
They are involved at all levels of management at Pine Gap and in determining the day to day collection priorities and tasking of the surveillance satellites controlled by the Facility.
cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/pinegap-secretwar.htm   (1307 words)

  
 Pine Gap gears for war with eye on Iraq - smh.com.au
In addition, Pine Gap is equipped to detect the launch of any Scud missiles fired by Iraq at its neighbours, including Israel.
Pine Gap already receives intelligence information from three geo-stationary satellites over the Indian Ocean, and another satellite above Indonesia is to be linked to the ground station this year.
During a military campaign against Iraq, dissemination of targeting and other information from Pine Gap to commanders in the field would be aided by specialist US cryptologic personnel already stationed there.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/29/1033283389127.html   (685 words)

  
 resist neo-con empire - Pine Gap Inspection by Christian Pacifists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
We are thrilled to have achieved our aim to put the spotlight on Pine Gap and expose its activities that have resulted in the loss of innocent life in other countries.
When I first proposed the idea of exposing the terrorist nature of Pine Gap by attempting to enter it and perhaps climb on one of the structures, my intention was to get a group together to do it in secret.
Pine Gap has caused a lot of trouble for Australians - I read that Harold Holt was MURDERED by ASIO for threatening to close it and Gough Whitlam was manipulated out of office, by CIA and moles, partly because it was feared he would not renew the lease.
www.resist.com.au /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1661   (2479 words)

  
 PIne Gap 4 to Stand Trial in Alice Springs & Other Anti-War Resistance Updates - Indymedia Ireland
Among those quizzed by the four about the role of Pine Gap in the targeting of missiles in Iraq was the deputy chief of the Pine Gap Joint Defence Facility, Michael Burgess, the top Australian official at the base.
They are accused of entering the Pine Gap prohibited area 20km from Alice Springs on December 9 last year and damaging fences, sensors and switches.
Pine Gap provides targets for the US military who then drop Raytheon missiles and bombs on those targets.
www.indymedia.ie /article/75579   (1831 words)

  
 PROJECT 1947 FORUM - Bill Chalker - Ultimate Secret - Fact or Fiction?
Pine Gap (code named 'Merino') located near Alice Springs and described as a "Joint Defence Space Research Facility", has long been a subject of concern and attracted some mystique, principally because of its clandestine role in intelligence gathering.
With this sort of shadowy activity, it should not be surprising that Pine Gap has become a focus of a number of apocryphal UFO related stories.
The Pine Gap research facility near Alice Springs has managed to keep secret, until now, one of the most unbelievable research projects in the world.
www.project1947.com /forum/bcint.htm   (3914 words)

  
 HISTORY OF JOINT DEFENCE SPACE RESEARCH FACILITY PINE GAP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BULLEN asks for fair compensation and an assurance that the facility to be built is a wholly Australian operated facility and that no military activity be performed at the proposed base.
Also reports that Satellite Imagery from Pine Gap was monitoring the troop movements and other miltary activity of Iraq.
The alleged area of land is on private property outside of Pine Gap's land holdings.
roswell.fortunecity.com /callanish/129/pinegap_history.htm   (1499 words)

  
 Pine Gap - Area 51 in Australia
An article published in late 1973 claimed that the Pine Gap installation, along with its sister installation in Guam, 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.
www.v-j-enterprises.com /pinegap.html   (2689 words)

  
 Pine Gap media.html
The petition notes that "As Pine Gap is a prime nuclear target in Australia, we believe that the dismantling of this installation is a vital preliminary step in the health care for all Australians."
Around 200 medicos from across Australia have put their signatures to a national petition calling for the dismantling of the Pine Gap communications base in the Northern Territory, on public health grounds.
The petition states "Pine Gap is an integral part of the United States nuclear war fighting system and therefore inevitably involves Australia in preparing for and potentially participating in nuclear strikes…"
pandora.nla.gov.au /pan/31544/20040522/www.mapw.org.au/missiledefence/PG_media_file.html   (1234 words)

  
 Pine Gap:
Twenty kilometres outside of Alice Springs is Pine Gap, or ‘The Joint Defence Space Research Facility’ as it is officially known.
Pine Gap brought the Cold War to Australia and its history is one of secrecy marked by numerous protests - including the time the locals rode their bicycles onto the landing strip to disrupt the landing of a huge plane.
And Pine Gap, of course, is still very much in operation.
www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s916941.htm   (1067 words)

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