num_pages: 136
description: Theyre on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldiers unit does. But what if thats top secret?I Could Tell You... is a bestselling collection of more than seventy military patches representing secret government projects. Here author/photographer/investigator Trevor Paglen explores classified weapons projects and intelligence operations by scrutinizing their own imagery and jargon disclosing new facts about important military units which are here known by peculiar names (Goat Suckers Grim Reapers Tastes Like Chicken) and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. The precisely photographed patchesworn by military personnel working on classified missions such as those at the legendary Area 51reveal much about a strange and eerie world about which little was previously known.
language: English
title: I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
publisher: Melville House