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The Reporter podcast: Spy Base Echelon
Gary Adshead’s 40-year journalism career has been spent pursuing the truth, no matter how ugly, dangerous – or ridiculous. From crooks and crimes to state secrets and heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines.
In his 40-year career as a journalist, Western Australia’s Gary Adshead has pursued the truth – no matter how ugly, how dangerous or how ridiculous. Whether on crooks, crimes, state secrets or heroic rescues, we take you behind the headlines of the biggest stories of his career.See all 18 stories.
This week on The Reporter podcast, Michael Thomson and Gary Adshead discuss the sensational story of one of the most secret spy bases in the world.
Imagine the reporter’s surprise when the head of the Defence Signals Directorate rang him out of the blue to talk about the listening station monitoring Chinese satellites and much more.
And when the reporter ran the name Echelon past the defence minister at the time, Kim Beazley, Mr Beazley responded with, “How do you know about that?”
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