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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... created by Darin Jensen . Photo on page 7 : courtesy of the USGS ; page 80 : courtesy of the Department of Energy ; page 152 : courtesy of the USAF ; page 168 : courtesy of National Parks Service ; page 186 : courtesy of the Library of ...
... created by Darin Jensen . Photo on page 7 : courtesy of the USGS ; page 80 : courtesy of the Department of Energy ; page 152 : courtesy of the USAF ; page 168 : courtesy of National Parks Service ; page 186 : courtesy of the Library of ...
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... ways of practicing secrecy are created and deployed. This is one of the reasons why secrecy reproduces itself, why it tends to sculpt the world around it in its own image. Since the Second World War the secret world has grown.
... ways of practicing secrecy are created and deployed. This is one of the reasons why secrecy reproduces itself, why it tends to sculpt the world around it in its own image. Since the Second World War the secret world has grown.
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... creation of " ghost prison- ers " and other opinions that would become collectively known as the " torture memos . " By 2003 , classified military spending equaled the Cold War highs of the Reagan era . Vice President Dick Cheney's ...
... creation of " ghost prison- ers " and other opinions that would become collectively known as the " torture memos . " By 2003 , classified military spending equaled the Cold War highs of the Reagan era . Vice President Dick Cheney's ...
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... created through secrecy , spaces that lie outside the rule of law , outside the Constitution , outside the democratic ideals of equal rights , transparent govern- ment , and informed consent . It seems to me that when we think about ...
... created through secrecy , spaces that lie outside the rule of law , outside the Constitution , outside the democratic ideals of equal rights , transparent govern- ment , and informed consent . It seems to me that when we think about ...
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... created and deployed . This is one of the reasons why secrecy reproduces itself , why it tends to sculpt the world around it in its own image . Since the Second World War the secret world has grown dra- matically . Covert operations and ...
... created and deployed . This is one of the reasons why secrecy reproduces itself , why it tends to sculpt the world around it in its own image . Since the Second World War the secret world has grown dra- matically . Covert operations and ...
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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