Blank spots on the map
Subtitle: the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world
By: Trevor Paglen.
Publisher: Dutton/Penguin Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780525951018
Subjects: Military bases -- United States; Intelligence service -- United States; Defense information, Classified -- United States; Military bases, American
Description: 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.