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Blank spots on the map : the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world / Trevor Paglen.
The adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a young geographer's road trip through the underworld of U.S. military and CIA "black ops" sites. Geographer-artist Trevor Paglen's research into areas that officially "don't exist" leads him on a globe-trotting adventure into a vast, undemocratic, and uncontrolled black empire--the unmarked spots on a map where our military conducts its most clandestine operations. Run by an amorphous group of government agencies and private companies, this empire's annual budget is over $40 billion, yet almost no one knows how it works or what it does. Whether it's from a hotel room in Vegas, secret prisons in Kabul, buried CIA aircraft in Central American jungles, Washington suburbs, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, Paglen's reporting is impassioned, rigorous, relentless, and eye-opening. This is an exposeÌ of a world that, officially, isn't even there.--From publisher description.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525951018 (hbk.) :
- ISBN: 0525951016 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: vi, 324 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Dutton, c2009.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-308) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Facts on the ground : Berkeley -- A guy in the classified world : an Air Force base in California -- Unexplored territory : downtown Las Vegas -- Wastelands : basin and range -- Classified resumes : Mojave Desert -- Fiat lux : Alamogordo, New Mexico -- The other night sky : a few miles north of the U.S. frontier -- The observer effect : 3,000 km altitude, 63.4 degrees inclination -- Blank spots in the law : Berkeley and Las Vegas revisited -- The precedent : Robins Air Force Base, near Macon, Georgia -- Money behind mirrored walls : Farm Credit Drive, Washington, D.C., suburbs -- Nonfunding the black world : United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., 20515 -- Plains of death : outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- Anything you need anywhere : Aguacate -- Bobs : Kabul -- Screaming their heads of : in the dark, around the world. |
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| Subject: | Military bases, American. Military bases > United States. Intelligence service > United States. Defense information, Classified > United States. |
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