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1 online resource (300 pages) |
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COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE: NARROWING THE GAP; 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): OPERATION DESERT STORM; THE END OF THE COLD WAR; 6. BILL CLINTON (1993-2000): SOMALIA; RUSSIA; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA, SERBIA AND KOSOVO; AL-QAEDA; 7. GEORGE W BUSH (2001-08): CHINA; AFGHANISTAN AND THE WAR ON TERROR; IRAQ; NORTH KOREA; 8. CAREER'S END/GOING NATIVE; PART III: GETTING AROUND; 9. NO TOWN LIKE ALICE |
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10. PROTESTS AND ALIENSPART IV: GETTING OUT; 11. THE SINGER AND THE SPY; 12. TIME TO LEAVE; EPILOGUE: BEYOND THE AGENCY; AFTERWORD; APPENDIX A--THE PRE-PUBLICATION REVIEW BOARD (PRB); APPENDIX B--THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY; APPENDIX C--OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT FROM THE CIA; APPENDIX D--OFFER OF EMPLOYMENT FROM THE NSA; APPENDIX E--SOME UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE OVERSEAS BENEFITS AT PINE GAP (1990-2008); GLOSSARY; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
| Summary |
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 lockedgates in the middle of the Australian desert. Author David Rosenberg details his career with an American intelligence agency during a tumultuous period in history that cove |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Rosenberg, David
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Rosenberg, David fast |
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Spies -- United States -- Biography
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Military surveillance -- Australia -- Northern Territory
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Military surveillance
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Spies
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Pine Gap (N.T.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87939431
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Northern Territory
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Northern Territory -- Pine Gap
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781742736488 |
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1742736483 |
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