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Exchange."
*   
*   That it was not, and never had been, simply a "telephone exchange" finally
*   came to light in the 1975 JPAC Approval Report, when it admitted that the
*   existing building had a comprehensive basement which housed NASA's micro-
*   wave communications headquarters in Australia. Part of the justification
*   of the "need" for the new, much larger building, was that by 1980, it was
*   expected that NASA would run out of room in their existing home.
*   
*   Apart from NASA, it is now admitted that Deakin houses the National
*   Computer Headquarters for, amongst others, the Australian Defense
*   Department, the Australian Taxation Office, the Department of Social
*   Security, the Commonwealth Department of Education, and the Department
*   of Transport and Communications.
*   
*   Both Tax and Social Security are, in turn, directly linked to Medicare.
*   In fact, the Department of Health used Social Security's computer
*   facilities there until their own were completed.
*   
*   A small, but highly significant, part of the building is, in fact,
*   occupied by Telecom. This is the part that contains the networking
*   junctions for the optical-fiber lines leased by the banks for their
*   "Electronic Funds Transfer System" (EFTS). ALL financial transactions
*   for the banks pass through there via subsidiary company, "Funds
*   Transfers Services Pty Ltd." (FTS)


*   The New York Times INTERNATIONAL Wednesday, May 21, 1997
*   by Clyde H. Farnsworth, Woomera, Australia.
*   
*   As Darth Vader's Death Star is blown to bits in the newly remastered "Star
*   Wars" at the local theater, the audience of Australian and American Air
*   Force personnel, and squadrons of their children, lets out a whoop. As the
*   lights go on, everyone is beaming.
*   [snip]
*   
*   Pine Gap employs nearly 1,000 people, mainly from the CIA and the U.S.
*   National Reconnaissance Office