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“It was several years later that Pine Gap was discovered not to be a military installation, but a CIA installation.…”
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“When the CIA began building it, because again, Pine Gap was originally billed as a military base. It was not until Whittem figured out that it was not a military base, which they cued him, which was the Australian prime minister. He found o…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Prelude to Terror chapter 27 @ 1:10:26
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“He was undone in regards to because he had a plan to walk into Pine Gap and ensure that Pine Gap was run by Australians and not just by the Americans. And I listened to one of your Rumble casts and talk about the Nugent Hand Bank, and then …”
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Satellites. 1962 is a critical date because do you know what was set up in 1962? I do not. Pine Gap in Australia, which is a satellite tracking capability that was eventually how they used GPS for tracking everybody for missile targets and …
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And I'm reading this the other day and I'm going, oh, son of a bitch. This is this Harvest, which is the operational code name, was the most sophisticated model of the stretch series of computers built by IBM and delivered to NSA in Februar…
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Pine Gap. Pine Gap began in 1962 as what was sold to the West and to everybody, frankly, an intelligence military installation in Australia. That installation changed forever the ability to track and communicate worldwide.…
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It was several years later that Pine Gap was discovered not to be a military installation, but a CIA installation. When the prime minister of Australia found that out, he tried to kick them out and they regime changed him. That's how critic…
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It did stationary what the Liberty did mobile. But when they were doing it, it was a brand new, basically a brand new technology that the kind of the nerve center was Pine Gap. It actually opened its doors in 1962. And they were basically, …
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I came across an installation in Australia called Pine Gap. Pine Gap was set up in 1962. When I got to Los Angeles Air Force Base in the 80s, they were in the process of offloading the technology that was used.…
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down there. They grew all kinds of illegal drugs. They provided shipping for the drugs out of Vietnam. So they're big time into this whole racket. And not coincidentally, one of the biggest outside the United States satellite tracking is Pi…
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Australia would be a key word, and then they would add some qualifiers to that. So if it's anything like Pine Gap, if there was an issue with Pine Gap, that that would be something they would search on. And anybody that talked about Pine Ga…
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He went through years, Tom Fitton went through years and years of suing and getting access to just that one camera. So more than likely, it's probably the second part of it because they always keep the records somewhere. You know, it's just…
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where they were forecasting this stuff. And literally they talked about Pine Gap. I'm going to find it. And I thought I tagged you guys in it, but it was interesting. So yeah, I've learned a lot about Pine Gap. What's interesting to me is i…
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early and mid 80s, when I got to Los Angeles Air Force Base, those programs were at the tail end of development and were being fielded and were classified. And it does look like a lot of that satellite classified programs did end up going t…
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And what's interesting, and it correlates timing-wise perfectly to what the USS Liberty was doing, if you look at a world map of where Australia is, and I'm going to pull it up real quick while I'm talking. So if you look at where Australia…
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If they're going up and down the coast, and their ship at that time was a SIGINT reconnaissance ship. Now, all of those classified satellite programs that basically got fielded in Australia at Pine Gap, one of the most significant ones that…
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navigational GPS capability for maritime. And if you wanted to be able to figure out if your capability could track a moving vehicle, what better vehicle would you choose other than a ship in order to test that concept? And it just so happe…
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that the Liberty, and that's why I wanted to talk to one of those guys that was on the Liberty. They just won't talk to me. Going up and down the coast of Africa with the communication systems that they had on there, they would have been ab…
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as they fielded that system. And so, to me, it makes perfect sense. And then you look at the timing of when we cooed Whitlam in Australia. What was his biggest contention? He wanted Pine Gap closed. He didn't want a foreign military on Aust…
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a CIA spy contingency in Australia. And within making that known, it was no time lickety split. He's gone. So, SR-71? You talking about Pine Gap, just a side note here. There is a series on either Prime Time or Netflix actually called Pine …
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All of the illegal trade routes. Because if anybody comes in and cuts in on you, you drone them. Who would know? You're in the middle of Africa. Who's going to get told? You could take out anybody. You watch everybody. Now, take all of that…
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positioning control center that basically controls all of the satellites in the southern hemisphere of the globe. Do you see how all of that fits together? That's crazy. So they have to have Pine Gap. And so when the prime minister of Austr…
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have their origins from Portugal. So, yeah, that doesn't surprise me. Well, I guess what surprised me was that it was really old history, like in Roman time, like long, long, long ago. And I was like, oh, my God. Yeah. Mark, go ahead. Yeah,…
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The initiative behind and he discovered that Pine Gap, he had the whole Australia had been sold that Pine Gap was a U.S. military base of which they all believed, you know, hey, good on us. You know, five eyes, blah, blah, blah. We're just …
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in Australia that just blew my mind. I had no idea about any of that stuff going on. And then Pine Gap happens to be just so happens to be located in Nugent's family area that was known for drug running and all of this other stuff. And so, …
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And you know where those are as well because they all have to be shut down as well. And I mean, the NSA certainly has the information to do that, which is what I was looking into when I posted that article about Pine Gap. If you guys think …
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obviously, a series of posts about the Nugent Hand Bank, because it's fascinating in a whole bunch of different ways in this new book that I found. And in doing that, obviously, because Nugent Hand was in Australia, I came across Pine Gap a…
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Reading all about this stuff again, which is like the 10th time I've re-looked at this, it becomes more interesting each time because we've added a new layer of other information. And so the first thing I saw when I looked at Pine Gap and i…
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And that's the base that I was at in Italy. That's why this is personal to me. I know what they did. And I was at the satellite purchasing place for the Air Force out in Los Angeles. So this is very personal. I understand a lot about what's…
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launched its first satellite the year before the USS Liberty on its mission. And if you think about it, one of the ways that they would validate the geographical synchronization of satellites and the locations, because we had NAVSTAR…
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I'm exactly at this coordinate. And then they telegraph that back to Pine Gap, and Pine Gap does their tracking based on the satellite, and they can confirm that they validate the actual navigational spying capability of the satellites that…
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technology capability to not a civilian operation. They stood up Pine Gap in Australia to monitor global transportation and with an intelligence capability of tracking systems in 1962. So the technology that you got in the late 90s, the mil…
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we had the ability to track everything with the standup of Pine Gap. I think it went operational like in 1965, they began construction in 62. And again, we're talking about surveillance. And the fact that you, the ability to track aircraft,…
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Go ahead. Okay. You're making a lot of good points, so I'm just going to add to some of what you're stating, ma'am. We did, obviously, you mentioned Noriega's time, right? There was a different purpose there. They've even made some pretty i…
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I can confidently say the majority of the people in my audience when we started this a couple of years ago had no idea even what Pine Gap was. I had heard of it, but I didn't pay too much attention to it because, again, I thought going into…
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With cancer. Back in 1960s, we already know the technology at Pine Gap, which was set up in 1962. Hitler supposedly and all of these Nazis lived all over South America and we couldn't find one of them. We didn't find any of them.…
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Oh, my God. Colonel, was the USS Liberty using Crypto AG on the ship? Not per se. So Crypto AG is they were actually using the satellite capability from Pine Gap. If you go back and you look and that's something else that no one talks about…
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When the CIA began building it, because again, Pine Gap was originally billed as a military base. It was not until Whittem figured out that it was not a military base, which they cued him, which was the Australian prime minister. He found o…
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liberty to do a whole bunch of different things, one of which was perfecting GPS, because there was also a GPS tracking station at Pine Gap. And because it was mobile, they could actually begin refining the technology to give us GPS, NavSta…
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I'm very very knowledgeable about the satellite capability post 1987 and through this research you go back to Pine Gap opening in 1962 and it talks about the satellite capability in the 1950s in relationship to the U-2 and the SR-71 when I …
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it brings a completely different picture to the whole thing. And remember that Pine Gap, the satellites, because while we were using the U-2 and the SR-71 for reconnaissance, they're actively building in the late 50s also Pine Gap because i…
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If you understand how the setup of the collection of information happened. So they set up Pine Gap in the early 1960s, like 1962. And we had elephant cages on the other side of the Mediterranean would have had the capability.…
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He was a U.S. ambassador to, among other places, Indonesia, Australia, Nauru. So let's talk about Indonesia. He's there when they do the coup. Australia, he's there when they're destabilizing that to take down the guy that wanted to close P…