03246cam a2200421 a 4500 73357 20230410105253.0 080929s2009 nyuab b 001 0 eng 2008042862 (OCoLC)ocn233549174 DLC DLC BTCTA BAKER YDXCP WIQ C#P BUR ABG CDX IXA CQU IG# TBS 9780525951018 (hbk.) 0525951016 (hbk.) AU@ 000043471765 IG# 9780525951018 (OCoLC)233549174 n-us--- UA26.A2 P138B 2009 355.3/4320973 22 Paglen, Trevor. Blank spots on the map : the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world / Trevor Paglen. New York : Dutton, c2009. vi, 310 p. : ill.; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-308) and index. 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 exposâe of a world that, officially, isn't even there.--From publisher description. 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. Military bases, American. Military bases United States. Intelligence service United States. Defense information, Classified United States. Coutts Information Services COUT 8517424 Baker and Taylor BTCP BK0007859523 Baker & Taylor BKTY 25.95 19.46 0525951016 0007859523 active YBP Library Services YANK 2896284 Ingram INGR 9780525951018 lcc bk C0 DRFGD 33317 33317 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-04-10 3 0 UA26.A2 P138B 2009 00000064020 2018-10-23 00:00:00 2018-10-23 bk