I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World - Hardcover
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They’re on the shoulder of all military personnel: patches that symbolize what a soldier’s unit does. But what happens if it’s top secret?
Shown here for the first time, these sixty patches reveal a secret world of military imagery and jargon, where classified projects are known by peculiar names (“Goat Suckers,” “None of Your Fucking Business,” “Tastes Like Chicken”) and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. Although the actual projects represented here (such as the notorious Area 51) are classified, these patches—which are worn by military units working on classified missions—are precisely photographed, strangely hinting at a world about which little is known.
By submitting hundreds of Freedom of Information requests, the author has also assembled an extensive and readable guide to the patches included here, making this volume one of the best available surveys of the military’s black world—a $27 billion industry that has quietly grown by almost 50 percent since 9/11.
Trevor Paglen is a geographer by training, and an expert on clandestine military installations. He leads expeditions to the secret bases of the American West and is the author, with A.C. Thompson, of Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights, which The New York Times praised as “the real thing . . . and not on the evening news.”
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Trevor Paglen is an expert on clandestine military installations. He leads expeditions to the secret bases of the American west and is the author, with AC Thompson, of Torture Taxi.
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I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
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Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 2007
ISBN 10: 1933633328
ISBN 13: 9781933633329
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Octavo. Hardcover. Black paper boards with cloth patch on front board. 135 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm. Updated with New Information and Additional Patches They're on the shoulders of all military personnel: patches showing what a soldier's unit does. But what if that's top secret' "A glimpse of [the Pentagon's] dark world through a revealing lens'patches'the kind worn on military uniforms. . . The book offers not only clues into the nature of the secret programs, but also a glimpse of zealous male bonding among the presumed elite of the military-industrial complex. The patches often feel like fraternity pranks gone ballistic." 'William Broad, The New York Times I COULD TELL YOU. . . is a bestselling collection of more than seventy military patches representing secret government projects. Here author/photographernvestigator Trevor Paglen explores classified weapons projects and intelligence operations by scrutinizing their own imagery and jargon, disclosing new facts about important military units, which are here known by peculiar names ("Goat Suckers," "Grim Reapers," "Tastes Like Chicken") and illustrated with occult symbols and ridiculous cartoons. The precisely photographed patches'worn by military personnel working on classified missions, such as those at the legendary Area 51'reveal much about a strange and eerie world about which little was previously known. ". Seller Inventory # 209770
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I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World
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