Antinuclear

MICHAEL GOREY

http://www.ntnews.com.au

1st June 2015

Pine Gap near Alice Springs 

MATERIAL leaked by whistleblower ­Edward Snowden has been analysed to ­reveal Pine Gap plays a critical role in monitoring intercepted satellite communications as part of a new “collect-­it-all” strategy­ ­implemented by the “Five Eyes” alliance.

The alliance comprises security agencies from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, and is bound by a multilateral agreement for joint co-operation ­in signals intelligence.

A report prepared by leading academics and espionage experts for the Nautilus ­Institute draws heavily on leaks to expose the strategy of Five Eyes, which Snowden described as a “supranational intelligence organisation that doesn’t answer to the known laws of its own countries”.

The report’s authors are Australian ­National University emeritus professor Des Ball, British investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, Canadian intelligence researcher Bill Robinson and Melbourne University professor Richard Tanter.

The Pine Gap satellite tracking station, 19km…