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Tuesday, June 14, 2005
# posted by Andy @ 1:50 AM

Article About Berkeley Researcher Who Explores Clandestine Areas
This SF BayGuardian article is from a while ago. It has the story of Trevor Paglen, "A UC Berkeley geographer [who] maps the secret military bases of the American West – where billions of dollars disappear into creepy clandestine projects."

The article is lengthy, but has all sorts of interesting information about what Paglen thinks is going on. For instance, he thinks that the UFO rumors about Area 51 were spread by the CIA to divert attention away from the military experiments and technology that was being developed there. Here is a brief bio of Paglen and explanation of his work from the article:
I met Paglen about 10 years ago when we were both hanging out at East Bay punk gigs. He's still got a punkish edge, favoring dark jeans and cowboy boots and punctuating many of his comments with slang and obscenities. All this camouflages, to some degree, his eclectic braininess: Before pursuing geography, Paglen earned degrees in religious studies (with a minor in musical composition) and art. As you read this, the Lab, a San Francisco gallery, is displaying Paglen's solo show "Recording Carceral Landscapes," a chilling commentary on California's leviathan prison system.

In addition to his academic explorations, Paglen also gives informal tours of classified America, journeying to places like the Tejon Ranch Radar Cross Section range (where Northrop tests bleeding-edge aircraft), the headquarters of Science Applications International Corp. (the no-profile defense contractor tapped to set up a TV propaganda network in Iraq), the San Diego docks that are home to the Sea Shadow (a classified Naval watercraft), and the Classic Bullseye listening station (a heavily guarded collection of National Security Agency eavesdropping equipment). He's posted graphics, reports, and pics from all these expeditions on his Web site, paglen.com.

Go read the whole thing.
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