Blank Spots on the Map : The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World

by Paglen, Trevor; Paglen, Trevor

• ISBN13: 9780451229168
• ISBN10: 0451229169
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-02
• Publisher: NAL Trade

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Trevor Paglen is the author of I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me and Torture Taxi.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
Facts on the Ground: Berkeley	p. 7
A Guy in the Classified World: An Air Force Base in California	p. 20
Unexplored Territory: Downtown Las Vegas	p. 32
Wastelands: Basin and Range	p. 49
Classified Résumés: Mojave Desert	p. 62
Fiat Lux: Alamogordo, New Mexico	p. 80
The Other Night Sky: A Few Miles North of the U. S. Frontier	p. 97
The Observer Effect: 3,000 km Altitude, 63.4 Degrees Inclination	p. 126
Blank Spots in the Law: Berkeley and Las Vegas Revisited	p. 138
The Precedent: Robins Air Force Base, Near Macon, Georgia	p. 152
Money Behind Mirrored Walls: Farm Credit Drive, Washington, D.C., Suburbs	p. 168
Nonfunding the Black World: United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., 20515	p. 186
Plains of Death: Outside Tegucigalpa, Honduras	p. 208
Anything You Need Anywhere: Aguacate	p. 229
Bobs: Kabul	p. 242
Screaming Their Heads Off: In the Dark, Around the World	p. 255
Epilogue	p. 274
Notes	p. 283
Acknowledgments	p. 309
Index	p. 311
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