false 5956744 1 <B>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</B><BR><BR>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 <I>black empire</I>—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.<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 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. <I>Blank Spots on the Map</I> is an exposé of a world that, officially, isn’t even there. 6129422 5 2 2009 Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World total:36|5:4|4:10|3:16|2:6|1:0| 36 120 90 13 3 0 false false Mon Feb 23 07:41:06 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 07:58:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Apr 08 16:51:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 17:03:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 22:03:57 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 22:27:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 27 12:33:04 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 10:48:26 -0700 2009
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