Edward Snowden leaked new NSA documents expose a United States secret facility near a remote city in northern Australia. This unit secretly tracks wireless communications and helps US military missions.
The documents come from the huge volume of classified records that Snowden has passed from the US National Security Service (NSA) 2013.
Recently classified documents, which were published by the The Intercept, contained reports of a secret facility, which has like code όνομα το "Rainfall," αλλά είναι επίσημα γνωστή σαν Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap.
The NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal that Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap, located outside Alice Springs, has developed advanced satellite technology for detailed geographic understanding that helps US military to accurately track their targets.
The use of unmanned aircraft (also known as drones) by the US Army is responsible for hundreds of civilian deaths in countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Somalia.
As stated in a classified document, Pine Gap's purpose is to "support US and Australian national security by helping to verify arms control and disarmament agreements, and to monitor military developments."
However, in fact, Pine Gap has a much wider mission with much more powerful capabilities than the Australian or US government publicly recognize.
Edward Snowden: The base Pine Gap locates targets for Drone strikes.
The spearstaxes που χρησιμοποιούνται από τη Pine Gap περιγράφονται ως "γεωσυγχρονισμένοι" και είναι πιθανώς τοποθετημένοι σε μια πολύ υψηλή τροχιά, άνω των 20.000 μιλίων πάνω από την surface land. They have powerful surveillance technology to monitor wireless communications on the ground, such as those sent and received by cell phones, radios and satellite uplinks.
According to the documents released by Snowden, these satellites collect "strategic and tactical military, scientific, political and economic communications" and monitor any missile or weapons tests in the targeted countries, steal information from foreign military systems and provide support to the United States Military.
One of the secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden and analyzed by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) suggests that the unit's role is not only to collect signalτα και να τα αναλύει, αλλά και να "ανιχνεύει, συλλέγει, καταγράφει, επεξεργάζεται, αναλύει και αναφέρει" τα πάντα - από τους πυραύλους που κυκλοφορούν στην επιφάνεια, την ατμόσφαιρα μέχρι τα αντιπυραυλικά συστήματα και τα μαχητικά αεροσκάφη.
A mission destroyed communications from the former Soviet Union, China, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and territories in the Atlantic Ocean.
2013, Sydney Morning Herald, reported that Pine Gap played an important role in the disputed blows of US aircraft, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of innocent civilians.
The Trump government doubled the blows with Drone
Richard Tanter, a professor at the University of Melbourne who has previously studied the Pine Gap base, says that "Pine Gap makes a significant and real-time contribution to these actions and their preparation."
"Η αυστραλιανή κυβέρνηση πιστεύει ότι μια επίθεση στη Βόρεια Κορέα είναι είτε δικαιολογημένη είτε είναι μια σοφή και λογική κίνηση, και θα είμαστε μέρος αυτής. Θα είμαστε ένοχοι όσον αφορά τις συνέπειες", δήλωσε ο Tanter.
With Trump's governance, hits and raids of special businesses have doubled, while at the same time relaxing engagement rules to prevent civilian deaths in such air strikes.
However, David Rosenberg, who worked at Pine Gap as team leader for weapons signal analysis for at least 18 years until 2008, confirms the facility's "geosynchronization" capability, arguing that preventing civilian casualties is a high priority.
"One thing I can certainly say to the Australian government is that the United States wants, of course, to minimize all civilian casualties," Rosenberg said. "Pine Gap helps reduce accidents by providing accurate information."
Η Αυστραλία φυσικά συνεργάζεται στενά με τους Αμερικανούς στη διεξαγωγή της παγκόσμιας επιτήρησης, δεδομένου ότι αποτελεί βασικό μέλος της συμμαχίας "Five Eyes" μαζί με τις ΗΠΑ, το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, τη Νέα Ζηλανδία και τον Καναδά.
