Tangimoana Radio Communications Interception Station

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.

There are 4 related items to this topic
Image

[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..

Other

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).

Other

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).

Online Image

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).

Add to cart