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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... UNITED PORTION STATES NORTH CAPE VERDE THE GAME QUINEA Western Sahara URITANIA Copenh POLAND Warrow BELARUS Astana UKRAINE HODOVA KAZAKHST Bamako N'Djamena Doba Dhabi ARABIA FRUIT AL KHALI SPOTS GALAPAGOS ISLANDS COSTA Paramaribo French ...
... UNITED PORTION STATES NORTH CAPE VERDE THE GAME QUINEA Western Sahara URITANIA Copenh POLAND Warrow BELARUS Astana UKRAINE HODOVA KAZAKHST Bamako N'Djamena Doba Dhabi ARABIA FRUIT AL KHALI SPOTS GALAPAGOS ISLANDS COSTA Paramaribo French ...
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... United States . 2. Intelligence service - United States . 3. Defense information , Classified - United States . 4. Military bases , American . I. Title . UA26.A2P2716 2009 355.3'4320973 - dc22 2008042862 Printed in the United States of ...
... United States . 2. Intelligence service - United States . 3. Defense information , Classified - United States . 4. Military bases , American . I. Title . UA26.A2P2716 2009 355.3'4320973 - dc22 2008042862 Printed in the United States of ...
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... United States Capitol , Washington , D.C. , 20515 186 13 Plains of Death Outside Tegucigalpa , Honduras 208 14 Anything You Need Anywhere Aguacate 229 15 Bobs Kabul 242 16 Screaming Their Heads Off In the Dark , Around the World 255 ...
... United States Capitol , Washington , D.C. , 20515 186 13 Plains of Death Outside Tegucigalpa , Honduras 208 14 Anything You Need Anywhere Aguacate 229 15 Bobs Kabul 242 16 Screaming Their Heads Off In the Dark , Around the World 255 ...
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... United Nations development outfits , and other assorted nongovernmental organizations , but their trap- pings fade away as our cab drives northeast past the airport to- ward the back road to Bagram . Once we're outside town , houses ...
... United Nations development outfits , and other assorted nongovernmental organizations , but their trap- pings fade away as our cab drives northeast past the airport to- ward the back road to Bagram . Once we're outside town , houses ...
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... United States spends more than $ 50 billion to fund a secret world of classified military and intelligence activities , a world of secret airplanes and unacknowledged spacecraft , " black " military units and covert prisons , a secret ...
... United States spends more than $ 50 billion to fund a secret world of classified military and intelligence activities , a world of secret airplanes and unacknowledged spacecraft , " black " military units and covert prisons , a secret ...
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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