Richard Dearlove discusses facility’s role in monitoring China’s ‘rather alarming’ activities
The former British spy chief Sir Richard Dearlove has described the Pine Gap surveillance base in central Australia as “hugely important” to western intelligence collection about China’s “rather alarming” activities.
“You’ve got the massive installation, which is partly NSA [US National Security Agency], at Pine Gap and that’s really important because, well, it’s an intercept intelligence site,” Dearlove said on“And it’s hugely important strategically to the US and to the western alliance because of its position, its geographical location.”
The former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service made the comments during a podcast conversation with the former Australian foreign affairs ministerAustralia is a member of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing alliance, which also includes the US, the UK, Canada and New Zealand.leaked by Edward Snowden indicated the site “plays a significant role in supporting both intelligence activities and military operations”.
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