Project RAINFALL: The Secret History of Pine Gap

At the height of the Cold War the chief of one of Australia's spy agencies joined three CIA men at a remote site in central Australia to toast the success of a top secret project known in US intelligence circles as RAINFALL. The CIA listening station at Pine Gap was officially called the Joint Defence Space Research Facility, but it had nothing to do with research and was joint in name only: Australians were hired as cooks and janitors but the first spies were all American. The job of the s...