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Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert
Authors and Contributors      By (author) David Rosenberg
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 154,Width 236
Category/GenreMemoirs
ISBN/Barcode 9781742701738
ClassificationsDewey:327.12
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hardie Grant Books
Imprint Hardie Grant Books
Publication Date 27 June 2011
Publication Country Australia

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 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. David Rosenberg 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.

Author Biography

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.