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A Defence White Paper released earlier this year also detailed how important Pine Gap is to both the US and the Australian governments.
According to the paper, Pine Gap “makes a critical contribution to the security interests of Australia and the United States, delivering information on intelligence priorities such as terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and military and weapons developments, while contributing to the verification of arms control and disarmament agreements”.
YOU CAN’T GET NEAR IT
Unless you work at Pine Gap, or possess special invisible powers, you won’t even get too close to it.
But Melbourne-based photographer Kristian Laemmle-Ruff got closer than most people when he snapped a series of photos of the facility last year.
Speaking to news.com.au, he said security around the facility was very tight with police patrols taking place every 10 minutes.
He said the average person would be lucky to get within a kilometre of it.