Pine Gap: behind the secret US military base in the Australian desert

ABC-Netflix co-production’s main source is an intelligence veteran who worked at the base for 18 years

A rogue missile blows a civilian aircraft out of the sky in Myanmar near an Asia-Pacific leaders’ conference, attended by the president of the United States and Australia’s prime minister. All 14 people aboard flight BM-24 are killed.

This first shot in a wider attack by assailants unknown opens the six-part drama series Pine Gap, a story set in the joint US-Australian intelligence-gathering base in the central Australian desert near Alice Springs.

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