By David Dimolfeta, Published by Defense One, 2 December 2025 The exact size of the agency’s workforce is not publicly known, but a fact sheet distributed by Maryland last year put it at 39,000. The National Security Agency recently fulfilled a goal to shed around 2,000 employees, according to three people
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a blockade outside the Pine Gap military facility. (ABC News: Alex Barwick) By Ben Doherty, Published by The Guardian, 26 October 2025 A protest over Pine Gap’s claimed role in genocide has refocused attention on the secretive US satellite base near Alice Springs Straight and bare,
By Faris Tanyos, Published by CBS News, 4 April 2025 Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of both the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, has been fired by the Trump administration, the top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees confirmed late Thursday night, along with a source
By Ivan Amato, Published by Spectrum IEEE, 21 January 2025 The Parcae project revolutionized electronic eavesdropping In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the United States
Australia hosts the US’s Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap (codename Rainfall) run by the CIA, NSA and Australia’s ASD, located just outside of Alice Springs in Australia’s central desert. Pine Gap hosts the NSA’s XKeyScore surveillance facility used to monitor military, diplomatic, economic communications in countries ranging from the Pacific
New Zealand’s Waihopai satellite interception station is operated by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) in the Waihopai Valley in New Zealand’s South Island. (Photo: Nicky Hager) By Murray Horton, Published by Covert Action Magazine, 24 August 2024 The news that the Waihopai spy base was going to be built
Five Eyes concept. Image: Istock By Nicky Hager, Published by Pearls and Irritations, 18 August 2024 A recent intelligence controversy in New Zealand is a telling lesson about how little influence junior parties like New Zealand and Australia have over allied intelligence operations. The issue was raised in an excellent
Pro-Palestinian protesters set up a blockade outside the Pine Gap military facility this morning. (ABC News: Alex Barwick) Published by ABC News, 27 November 2023 A group of protesters have blocked access to the highly secretive Pine Gap military facility in Central Australia. It's the second protest outside the joint Australian-US
