Project Rainfall : the secret history of Pine Gap / Tom Gilling. Secret history of Pine Gap

Collection type	Library
Author	Gilling, Tom, author.;
Call Number	355.70994 G481p
Document type	Monograph
Year	2019. 2019. 019.
Pagination	xi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher	ALLEN & UNWIN, Allen & Unwin,
Note	Bibliography: pages 301-306. Pine Gap is a top secret American spy base on Australian soil, but how much do we really know about it? At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in Central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing to do with research and was joint in name only: Australians were hired as cooks and janitors but the first spies were all American. The job of the satellites controlled from Pine Gap was to eavesdrop on Soviet missile tests. While government ministers denied that Australia was a nuclear target, bureaucrats in Can berra secretly planned for Armageddon in the suburbs of Alice Springs. No longer just a listening station, Pine Gap has metamorphosed into a key weapon in the Pentagon's war on terror, with Australians in frontline roles. Drawing on declassified documents in Australian and US archives, Tom Gilling's explosive new book tells, for the first time, the uncensored story of Australia's most secret place. Tertiary/Undergraduate. General.
Place made	[S.l.] : Crows Nest, NSW :

Abstract

Introduction -- 1 The space race -- 2 Decision No. 546 -- 3 Pine Gapski -- 4 Memo to Mr Bailey -- 5 Cooks, bakers, computer operators -- 6 No need to know -- 7 Make it ''no comment'' -- 8 The beauty of the doms -- 9 An Aussie bomb -- 10 Chinese whispers -- 11 Keep your hands off -- 12 The birds -- 13 Number two on the shit list -- 14 ''I can''t stand that [****]'' -- 15 NSSM 204 -- 16 Never again -- 17 Drop that hamburger -- 18 Apocalypse now? -- 19 Reds, ratbags and radicals -- 20 No admission -- 21 A magnet for protest -- 22 Desert Storm -- 23 The canteen tour -- 24 Hunting for Osama -- 25 Snowden -- 26 Rainfall -- 27 A saucerful of secrets -- Bibliography.