Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Welcome to a top-level clearance world that doesn't exist...Now with updated material for the paperback edition. This is the adventurous, insightful, and often chilling story of a road trip through a shadow nation of state secrets, clandestine military bases, black sites, hidden laboratories, and top-secret agencies that make up what insiders call the "black world." Here, geographer and provocateur Trevor Paglen knocks on the doors of CIA prisons, stakes out a covert air base in Nevada from a mountaintop 30 miles away, dissects the Defense Department's multibillion dollar "black" budget, and interviews those who live on the edges of these blank spots. Whether Paglen reports from a hotel room in Vegas, a secret prison in Kabul, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, he is impassioned, rigorous, relentless-and delivers eye-opening details. |
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... CIA " black ops " sites . It is a world of state se- crets : clandestine military bases , ultrasecret black sites , classified factories , hidden labora- tories , and top - secret agencies making up what defense and intelligence ...
... CIA " black ops " sites . It is a world of state se- crets : clandestine military bases , ultrasecret black sites , classified factories , hidden labora- tories , and top - secret agencies making up what defense and intelligence ...
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... geog- raphy . A secret prison called the Salt Pit , built shortly after Sep- tember 11 as the Northern Alliance , the CIA , and American Special Forces fanned though Afghanistan . Like so many other 2 BLANK SPOTS ON THE MAP.
... geog- raphy . A secret prison called the Salt Pit , built shortly after Sep- tember 11 as the Northern Alliance , the CIA , and American Special Forces fanned though Afghanistan . Like so many other 2 BLANK SPOTS ON THE MAP.
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... CIA director . The de- partment's home is on the fifth floor of McCone Hall , a name commemorating John McCone , whom Kennedy appointed CIA head after the Bay of Pigs disaster . Having a geography building named after a CIA director ...
... CIA director . The de- partment's home is on the fifth floor of McCone Hall , a name commemorating John McCone , whom Kennedy appointed CIA head after the Bay of Pigs disaster . Having a geography building named after a CIA director ...
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... CIA renditions to " enhanced interrogation techniques " to warrantless surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency . Upon leaving the Bush administration in 2003 , Yoo returned to his pro- fessorship at Berkeley . In an ...
... CIA renditions to " enhanced interrogation techniques " to warrantless surveillance of Americans by the National Security Agency . Upon leaving the Bush administration in 2003 , Yoo returned to his pro- fessorship at Berkeley . In an ...
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... CIA . In the Weberian scheme secrecy is little more than an unintended effect of modern bureaucratic organization . But the CIA isn't your softball league , and this is where the Weberian thesis falls short . State secrecy is a form ...
... CIA . In the Weberian scheme secrecy is little more than an unintended effect of modern bureaucratic organization . But the CIA isn't your softball league , and this is where the Weberian thesis falls short . State secrecy is a form ...
Contents
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Wastelands | 49 |
Classified Résumés | 62 |
Fiat | 80 |
The Other Night | 97 |
The Observer Effect | 126 |
Money Behind Mirrored Walls | 168 |
Nonfunding the Black World | 186 |
Plains of Death | 208 |
Anything You Need Anywhere | 229 |
Bobs | 242 |
Screaming Their Heads | 255 |
NOTES | 283 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 309 |
Other editions - View all
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Trevor Paglen Limited preview - 2009 |
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Trevor Paglen No preview available - 2010 |
Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World Trevor Paglen No preview available - 2010 |
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