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Buckley (Colorado)

Finally, a third [cf. Pine Gap and Menwith Hill] highly secret satellite receibing station was openend at Buckley Air National Guard Base, a heavily guarded facility in Aurora, just outside Denver, Colorado. Known as an Aerospace Data Facility of the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organisation (SAMSO), it appears to be a joint NSA-NRO operation and may control and receive data from the DSP 467 early-warning satellite launched into orbit over Panama on March 1, 1972, as well as other intelligence from such SIGINT orbiters as Rhyolite. One 1974 report indicated that the intelligence data flowing into Buckley through its five radome-covered satellite dishes was processed by powerful dual IBM 360-75J computers. (PP 272)

-- [PP] James Bamford: THE PUZZLE PALACE, 1982.

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