AUSTRALIAN MILITARY –

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. David Rosenberg, a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for 18 years, was the first to speak out to give an insider’s account of what happens behind those locked gates in the middle of the Australian desert. Rosenberg detailed 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 revised and expanded edition of Rosenberg’s account is a fascinating glimpse inside the top-secret world of military surveillance.

Fully revised edition with new material.

David Rosenberg worked for the NSA for over 20 years, including 18 years as an American representative at the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap in Alice Springs. As an Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) signals analyst and manager for his team, he was responsible for identifying, evaluating and reporting the military capabilities of countries that posed potential threats to the United States. Since leaving the NSA in 2008, he has become a freelance writer for Australia’s On Duty magazine, writing about the world of signals intelligence.

• Part I: Getting in
• 1: Who am I?
• 2: The new recruit
• 3: The mission
• 4: On the other side of the world
• Part II: Getting down to business
• 5: George HW Bush (1989-92)
• 6: Bill Clinton (1993-2000)
• 7: George W Bush (2001-08)
• 8: Career’s end/going native
• Part III: Getting around
• 9: No town like Alice
• 10: Protests and aliens
• Part IV: Getting out
• 11: The singer and the spy
• 12: Time to leave.

• First published in 2011 under the title Inside Pine Gap.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Rosenberg, David
• United States. National Security Agency — History
• United States. National Security Agency/Central Security Service — History
• Military surveillance — Northern Territory
• Military bases, American — Northern Territory
• Spies — United States — Biography
• Military surveillance — Australia
• Military bases, American — Australia
• Pine Gap (N.T.)
• Joint Defence Space Research Facility (Pine Gap, N.T.)
• Australian

• • xxxi, 247 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm #030525