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Explainer: What is Pine Gap and how could it be assisting the US and Israel in their war on Iran?

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Hannah Ferguson
Mar 10, 2026
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Pine Gap at 50: why controversy lingers and why its utility is enduring |  The Strategist

Last week, SBS reported that a former intelligence officer and current independent MP, Andrew Wilkie, told them it’s ‘indisputable’ that Australian intelligence is being used in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

“It’s not a question of if; it’s a fact that intelligence relevant to what’s going on in Iran at the moment, and in the Middle East, some of that inte…

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