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Aug222017

Pine Gap plays crucial role in America's wars, leaked documents reveal

DateTuesday, August 22, 2017 at 02:48PM

Intelligence from Australia's Pine Gap base is being used on US battlefields, leaked documents from the US National Security Agency have revealed for the first time.

The documents reveal that the base outside Alice Springs, officially titled Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, provides detailed geolocation intelligence to the US military that can be used to locate targets, including for special forces and drone strikes.

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