U.S. spy secrets Asia from bases in Australia

WASHINGTON - The United States used a satellite base in Australia to gather information about the military in Asia, like China, India, and North Korea, a report states.

Satellite Statsiun Pine Gap, located in Outback Australia, has been very reliable in the U.S. led war crusaders in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans, reports the AFP on Monday (9/19/2011).

Pine Gap is one of Washington's largest intelligence post in the world who designed the Cold War period.

A number of American intelligence agencies operating in statsiun sensiif who have an official name "Joint Defence Space Research Facility."

An intelligence analyst, David Rosenberg, who spent 18 years at the base, stating that Pine Gap is currently helping the "war on terror" who commanded the U.S. and also aims to monitor the movements of the military and politics in Asia.

"There are few countries in the world, especially countries producing weapons, which became the object of interest of the United States and Australia, and of course many Asian countries have it," said Rosenberg.

Rosenberg, who holds the secret National Security Agency (NSA), adding that it also tapped into a satellite base of weapons and communications signals from other countries through a number of satellites orbiting planet Earth.

"I think, many countries that have sizable military also produce weapons, has always been a target of intelligence and of course China is a rapidly developing countries in this regard," lanjutny.

"There's development there, of which we have observed."

He also added that India and Pakistan also became the center of attention because of their nuclear tests that shocked the 1990s.

One of the factors that led to the controversial sacking of Prime Minister of Australia, Gough Whitlam, in 1975 was because he was judged to hamper and threaten the existence of Pine Gap.