Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) station. Opened in 1982, replacing an earlier facilitiy at Irirangi, near Waiouru. It is 30 kms west of Palmerston North, and described as a radio communications interception facility. Sister base to the Waihopai satellite communications interception station near Blenheim.
Tangimoana Radio Communications Interception Station
[Posters collected by Ron and Carmen Smith, issued by peace movements and groups, again...
Date: 1980 - 1986
From: Smith, Ronald Joseph, 1921-1995 : Papers
Reference: Eph-C-SMITH-Peace-1980/1986
Description: Includes: 1980s: New Zealand Foundation for Peace Studies. "It will be a great day when schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to run a cake stall to buy a new bomber" Project X. What's big violent and grey? and eats 3.5 million bucks a day? The New Zealand military! (2 copies) 1982: Pacific Peacemaker sails on a rising tide - to halt Trident. The Pacific is our home. Peacemaker is sponsored in Aotearoa, by Home Base Pacific Pilgrimage. 1983: Join a peace group. Published by the NZ Quaker Peace Committee 1984: Beyond ANZUS Conference; a three day conference for all people interested in understanding ANZUS and alternatives to it. Wellington Town Hall, June 16, 17, 18 [1984] (2 copies) Triad '84. US Air Force. Keep New Zealand out of this warmaking (2 copies) Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday Aug 4, Civic Sq [to] Parliament, 11.30 am. Published by the NZUSA [Green poster] (2 copies) Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday Aug 4, Civic Sq [to] Parliament, 11.30 am. Published by the NZUSA [Blue poster] (2 copies) Independence and peace for the Pacific. March Saturday 4th Aug from Civic Sq. Published by the NZUSA [Pink poster] Picket ANZUS Coucil, Monday July 16 12.30 to 1.30. Bring your lunch. Meet Foreign Affairs, 38 Terrace (2 copies) Wellington - Auckland Peace-Trek. Protest against nuclear sub Queenfish. Fri 23 - Sun 25 March ... Guide Owen Wilkes [1984] (2 copies) 1985: Greenpeace. 'Rainbow Warrior' Pacific Peace voyage 1985. "When the earth is sick, and the animals disappear ...". Design L Boult. Merchant Adventurers of Narnia. Narnia wholeheartedly supports Pacific Peace Vigil, 6, 7, 8 Aug., 40th anniversary Hiroshima. [Day evening and night events]. Michael Fowler Centre [1985] (2 copies) 1986: United Nations International Year of Peace. Conference on peace & personal power, 29-31 August 1986, Nelson College. Made in Nuke-Freeland Tangimoana Peace Picnic. Saturday January 25, 1986. North Taranaki Peace Group Wairarapa Peace-Line '86. Free family peace festival. Sun 23 Feb, 10 am - 5 pm, Tauherenikau Racecourse Featherton [1986] Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprints, offset prints and photocopies, sizes varying up to 420 x 297 mm. Provenance: Donated as part of the estate of Ron and Carmen Smith, Wellington, in 2011. Transfers: Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2031, Photographic Archive, Oral History Archive..
Government Communications Security Bureau and Tangimoana [Box G]
Date: 1980-1989
From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12055-53
Description: Papers relating to the GCSB, Waihopai Satellite Communications Station and other intelligence agencies. Includes correspodence with Owen Wilkes and Nicky Hager. Quantity: 1 box(es).
Government Communications Security Bureau and Tangimoana - Papers [Box F]
Date: 1974-1984
From: Scientists Against Nuclear Arms (N.Z.): Records
Reference: MS-Papers-12055-52
Description: Papers relating to the intelligence work of the GCSB and Tangimoana. Includes papers by Owen Wilkes. Quantity: 1 box(es).
Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :"What did David Lange say about this place not being involv...
Date: 1985
From: Lynch, James Robert, 1947- :[Digital scans of cartoons published in the New Plymouth Daily News and the New Zealand Times]
By: Taranaki daily news (Newspaper)
Reference: DCDL-0024903
Description: Shows a couple outside the barbed wire high fence of the 'Tangimoana Satellite Tracking Station #007'. Accompanying note from cartoonist states 'Concern had been voiced by watchdog groups that the Tangimoana satellite station was an part of an American spy network'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).