I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me
Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
by Trevor Paglen · first published 2008
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You might try googling Trevor Paglen, who wrote "I could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me" which is a book covering those patches and their history.
on “Ask HN: I'm looking for a hacking talk that discussed USGOV logos and satellites” ↗Another Paglen classic, which I highly recommend to anyone interested in this sort of thing, is "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World".[1][2] [1] - https://hatoffoil.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/i-could-tell-y... [2] - https://www.amazon.com/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed/dp/19...
on “Secret Landscape: America's cold war infrastructure” ↗Look up Trevor Paglen's book "I could tell you but then you would have to be destroyed by me". It's a collection of mission patches along with some interpretation as to the meaning and placement of symbols. Fascinating stuff.
on “End of an era: Final Delta IV heavy rocket carries NROL-70 on historic mission” ↗Reminds me of the book "I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me". It's all about various patches from secret projects.
on “FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo” ↗I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me[0] is one of the books dedicated to these sorts of patches. My library still doesn't have a copy. [0]https://www.amazon.com/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed/dp/19...
on “The oddly beautiful and sometimes disturbing artistic talent of drug cops (2015)” ↗There's a whole book, titled I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World: http://www.amazon.com/Could-Tell-Then-Would-Destroyed/dp/193...
on “New US spy satellite logo features world-devouring octopus” ↗and the design was featured on a the mission patch years before the 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]…
on “America’s stealth aircraft you've never heard of” ↗