Blank Spots on the Map : The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World
Overview
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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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780451229168
- ISBN-10: 0451229169
- Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
- Publish Date: March 2010
- Dimensions: 9 x 5.96 x 0.76 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 352
- Reading Level: Ages 18-UP
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