eBooks - History - Military - Trevor Paglen - Blank Spots on the Map
Blank Spots on the Map eBooks
by Trevor Paglen
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Blank Spots on the Map Summary
| 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 Trevor Paglen is a scholar in geography, an artist, and a provocateur. His 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. Paglen spies on the covert site at Groom Lake, Nevada, taking photos from a mountain top thirty miles away. He visits the widow of Walter Kazra, who, while working construction at Groom Lake, was poisoned by the toxic garbage pits there. The U.S. Air Force defense to his estate?s suit? The base does not exist. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case. Whether it?s from a hotel room in Vegas, secret prisons in Kabul, buried CIA aircraft in Central American jungles, Washington, D.C., suburbs, or a trailer in Shoshone Indian territory, Paglen?s reporting is impassioned, rigorous, relentless?and eye-opening. Blank Spots on the Map is an expos? of a world that, officially, isn?t even there. |
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eBooks - Titles - Authors - History - Military - Trevor Paglen - Blank Spots on the Map