Blank spots on the map : the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world / Trevor Paglen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paglen, Trevor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military bases, American.

Military bases--United States.

Military bases.

United States.

Intelligence service--United States.

Intelligence service.

Defense information, Classified--United States.

Defense information, Classified.

Physical Description:

vi, 324 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dutton, [2009]

Summary:

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 exposé of a world that, officially, isn't even there.--From publisher description.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-308) and index.

ISBN:

9780525951018

0525951016

OCLC:

233549174