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Location
| Country
| Target/Task
| Relations
|  MORWENSTOW
| UK
| INTELSAT, Atlantic, Europe, Indian Ocean
| NSA, GCHQ
| SUGAR GROVE
| USA
| INTELSAT, Atlantic, North and South America
| NSA
| YAKIMA FIRING CENTER
| USA
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA
| WAIHOPAI
| NEW ZEALAND
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA, GCSB
| GERALDTON
| AUSTRALIA
| INTELSAT, Pacific
| NSA, DSD
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| MENWITH HILL
| UK
| Sat, Groundstation, Microwave(land based)
| NSA, GCHQ
| SHOAL BAY
| AUSTRALIA
| Indonesian Sat
| NSA, DSD
| LEITRIM
| CANADA
| Latin American Sat
| NSA, CSE
| BAD AIBLING
| GERMANY
| Sat, Groundstation
| NSA
| MISAWA
| JAPAN
| Sat
| NSA
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| PINE GAP
| AUSTRALIA
| Groundstation
| CIA
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| FORT MEADE
| USA
| Dictionary Processing
| NSA Headquarters
| WASHINGTON
| USA
| Dictionary Processing
| NSA
| OTTAWA
| CANADA
| Dictionary Processing
| CSE
| CHELTENHAM
| UK
| Dictionary Processing
| GCHQ
| CANBERRA
| AUSTRALIA
| Dictionary Processing
| DSD
| WELLINGTON
| NEW ZEALAND
| Dictionary Processing
| GCSB Headquarters
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Pine Gap Station
Pine Gap, run by the CIA, is near Alice Springs in central Australia and mostly an underground facility. Pine Gap was mainly established to serve as the groundstation and downlink for reconnaissance satellites like the RHYOLITE and ORION system. The facility consists of more than 7 large antennas in randomes. In Pine Gap's Signals Processing Office transmitted signals are received and transformed for further analysis.There is a no fly zone 4km around PG, and local land holders have agreed not to allow "visitors" access to there properties. It is said that Pine Gap employs nearly 1000 people, mainly from the CIA and the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Source:
Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, (Westview Press, 4th ed., 1999)p190
Nicky Hager, Secret Power, New Zealand's role in the internatinal spy network, (Craig Potton, 1996)p34ff
Pictures of Pine Gap
 http://www.networx.com.au/home/slider/Pine-Gap.htm
 http://www.networx.com.au/home/slider/Pine-Ga...
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