Blank Spots on the Map
the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world
by Trevor Paglen · first published 2009
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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.
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Thanks, I'll check that out. I really liked his book _Blank Spots on the Map_ (https://www.amazon.com/Blank-Spots-Map-Geography-Pentagons/d...).
on “I Found a Secret US Government Surveillance Program” ↗As i recall the company was actually mentioned in a book i read - Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon's Secret World by Trevor Paglen. so you are on the mark here.
on “Palantir Raises $90 Million” ↗…project was acknowledged [1]. Trevor Paglen even wrote a book about the patches "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me" [2]. He's done a few talks: Google on his previous work "Blank Spots on the Map" [3], "Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture" [4] [1] https://www.wired.com/2010/08/photog-probes-secret-sites-wit... [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103000.I_Could_Tell_You... [3] https://youtu.be/mApBa2qKVDM…
on “America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of” ↗