Inside Pine Gap. The Spy Who Came In From The Desert

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Publisher Place: Prahran
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 216 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page. In 1966 Australia And The U.S. Signed A Treaty That Allowed The Establishment Of A Jointly Run Satellite -tracking Station Just South Of Alice Springs.

Publishers Description: 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 40 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 insiders account of what happens behind those locked gates in the middle of the Australian desert. The author details his career with anAmerican 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.

ISBN: 9781742701738