Richard Lee Stallings

Richard Lee Stallings was a senior officer in the CIA's Office of ELINT and the first US Chief of Facility at Pine Gap (Joint Defense Facility Pine Gap), Alice Springs, Australia.

Stallings arrived in Australia shortly before a planning meeting on 13 September 1966 and relocated to Alice Springs in January 1967 to oversee the facility's initial operations. Pine Gap was established to serve as the ground control station for Program B's geosynchronous SIGINT satellites. As first Chief of Facility, Stallings was responsible for standing up the CIA's most strategically significant technical collection station outside the continental United States.