I want to thank my agent, Ted Weinstein, for helping to conceive, guide, shape, and realize this project from the very beginning, and Stephen Morrow, my editor at Dutton, who was simply outstanding.
INDEX
Abdullah, Abdullah
Abraxas Corporation
Abu Ghraib
Acheson, Dean
Addington, David
aerial images
Afghanistan
described
Idema in
invasion of
Mustafa Hotel in Kabul
relational geography of
Salt Pit prison
and war on terror
AFP-731 (Air Force Project 731)
Aguacate, Honduras
Air America
Air Force, Department of
budget for
and Central American wars
and CIA
establishment of
and Groom Lake
and Janet
and Kasza v. Browner
and Project Banshee
and satellites
and Special Projects Flight Test Squadron
at Tonopah Test Range
and United States v. Reynolds
Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC)
Air Force’s Electronic Warfare Directorate
Airamco
Airborne Reconnaissance Support Program
Al Rawi, Bisher
Al-Qaeda
Alvarez, Gustavo
Anabasis
Andrews Air Force Base
AQUATONE
Arar v. Ashcroft
Area See also Groom Lake
Argentina
Army, Department of
Ashcroft, John
assassinations
astronauts
AT&T
atomic bomb. See also nuclear research
Atomic Energy Act
Atomic Energy Commission
Aviation Specialties
Aviation Week & Space Technology
Baer, Robert
Baghdad International Airport
Bagram, Afghanistan . See also Salt Pit prison
Bahir, Gairat
Bakhtiari, Abdel Basit
Baldridge, Holmes
Banshee program
Barker, Bernard
Battalion
Bear River Massacre
Belknap, Horace
Benjamin, Doug
Bergen, Peter
Beswick, Keith
Bethe, Hans
Biddle, Charles
BIG PINE II
Big Sky Ranch (Cooke Tracking Station)
bin al-Shibh, Ramzi
Bin Attash, Hassan
Bin Laden, Osama
Binns, Jack
Binyam Mohammed al Habashi
bipartisanship
Bird of Prey aircraft
Birk, Frank T.
Bissell, Richard
Black Chamber
Blackwater
Bobs
Boeing
Bird of Prey aircraft
and Plant
and satellites
and United Launch Alliance
Bohr, Niels
Boland Amendment
Booz Allen
Bork, Robert
“the Box”
Boykin, William G.
Bremer, Paul
Breyer, Stephen
Brown, Clarence J.
Brown, Wilson
Bryan, Joe
budget for the black world
for Air Force
bipartisan nature of
for Department of Defense
effect of
formalization of
for intelligence operations
for the Manhattan Project
for MISTY program
for the National Reconnaissance Office
and private contractors
for satellites
scale of
for Special Operations Division of the Army
and U.S. Congress
and U.S. Constitution
bureaucracy, secrecy in
Bush, George Herbert Walker
Bush administration (G. W. Bush)
and the black budget
and domestic spying
and executive powers
and Geneva Conventions
and McCain Amendment
and Military Commissions Act
and Negroponte appointment
and war on terror
Business Security International (BSI)
Bybee, Jay
BYEMAN
Camp Bondsteel
Camp Nama
Cape Canaveral
Caraballo, Edward
Carter administration
Casey, Bill
Casper, John A.
Castro, Fidel
Center for Intelligence Research
and Analysis
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Central AmericaSee also specific
countries, including Nicaragua
Central American Free Trade Agreement
Central Intelligence Agency Act
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
and Air Force
and Anabasis project
and Army
authority for covert action
and the black budget
and Central American wars
and Church Committee
and Colby
covert infrastructure of
and Discoverer program
and drug experiments
establishment of
extralegal status of
and “Family Jewels”
and Groom Lake
and Guantánamo Bay
headquarters of
and Iran
legal immunity of
and photo interpreters
prisons of
rendition program of
and satellites
and Schlesinger
and Southeast Asia
and Tepper Aviation
and torture
and war on terror
and Watergate
Chamorro, Edgar
CHAOS
Charly
Cheney, Dick
on executive power
in Ford administration
and Kellogg Brown and Root
and war on terror
China
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station
Church Committee
Churchill, Winston
clandestine operations
Clarridge, Duane “Dewey,”
classified world
Clinton administration
Colby, William
Cold War
Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH)
Connor, Patrick E.
conspiracy theories
CONSTANT PEG
contractors, private
contras
Cooke Tracking Station (“Big Sky Ranch”)
Corn, David
Cornell, Don
CORONA program
Corporate Air Service Inc.
COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) number
Costa Rica
Counter Group
counterinsurgency operations
Counterterrorist Joint Task Force
covert operations
Cox, Archibald
Creech Air Force Base
Crossfield, Scott
cryptology
Cuba
Curtin, Thomas
Dann, Carrie
Dark Prison
“data masked” phrase
Dean, John
deception
DeConcini, Dennis
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
defense contractors
Defense Intelligence Agency
Delano, Alonzo
Delta Force
democracy
and am
ateur satellite tracking
and science
and secrecy
and transparency
Democratic National Committee
Dempsey, Joan
Denbeaux, Mark
Dennis, Eugene
D’Escoto, Miguel
Desert Rock Airstrip (DRA)
Detachment 3, Air Force Flight Test Center
Deutch, John M.
disappearances
Discoverer program
domestic spying
Donovan, William
Dostum, Abdul Rashid
Dow Chemical
Drinker Biddle and Reath law firm
Dulles, Allen
Duncan, Dale E.
Durenberger, David
DynCorp
Dyson, Freeman
Dyson, Ken
Easter, Russ
Eberst, Russell
economy of the black worldSee also budget for the black world
Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG&G)
Edgerton, Harold “Doc”
Edmonds, Sibel
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards North Base
Egypt
8X program
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
El Salvador
El-Banna, Jamil
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ellender, Allen
Ellsberg, Daniel
El-Masri, Khaled
El-Masri v. Tenet
Emerson, Steven
Enders, Rudy
Enterprise
executive branch of government
Cheney on
and covert operations
effect of the black world on
and Iran-Contra Affair
and McCain Amendment
and Military Commissions Act
and state secrecy
and Truman administration
and United States v. Reynolds
and war on terror
and Watergate
extralegal status of black agencies
Faizi, Wais
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Federation of American Scientists
Felock, Joe
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard
Field Operations Group (FOG)
Finletter, Thomas
Fiorini, Frank
Fishel, Julie
Fisher, Louis
Flight Test Historical Foundation
F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter
Ford administration
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Forrestal, James
Fort Irwin National Training Center
412th Flight Test Wing
413th Flight Test Squadron
4450th Tactical Group
4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron (Red Eagles)
Frankfurter, Felix
Franks, Tommy
free speech
Freedom of Information Act
Friedman, William Fredrick
Frost, Robert
Fulbright, William
Future Imagery Architecture (FIA)
Galileo
Galison, Peter
Gannon, John
García, Dionisio Díaz
Gates, Robert
Gathering of the Eagles
Gay, Milus
Geiger, Vincent
Geneva Conventions
Gibson, Mary
Goddard Space Flight Center
Godoy, David
Goldwater, Barry
Gonzales, Alberto
Google Earth
Gore, Al
Goss, Porter
Graham, Mary Margaret
Gray, Charles Glass
Greeley, Horace
Groom Lake
and the Gathering of the Eagles
history of
and Janet flights
and Kasza v. Browner
map depicting
views of
See also Area
Ground Observer Corps
Groves, Leslie
Guantánamo Bay
and democracy
Denbeaux’s report on
establishment of
and McCain Amendment
and rights of prisoners
torture sanctioned at
Guevara, Ernesto “Che”
Gulf War
Hagerty, James
Haldeman, H. R.
Hall, Keith
Halliburton
Hamdan case
Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Harvey, Miles
Hasenfus, Eugene
Haug, Rudy
HAVE BLUE aircraft
Hayden, Michael
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin
Helms, Richard
Hepting v. AT&T
Hersh, Seymour
Hiera, Abdulsalam
Hill Air Force Base
Hillenkoetter, Roscoe
Hillhouse, R. J.
Hiroshima, Japan
Hiss, Alger
Hitler, Adolf
Holloman Air Force Base
Holloway, James
Hollywood blacklist
Honduras
Hoover, Herbert
Hughes-Ryan Act
Human Rights Watch
Hunt, E. Howard
Hussein, Saddam
Idema, Jack
imaging satellites
Inman, Bobby
Inouye, Daniel
Intelligence Authorization Act
Intelligence Support Activity (ISA)
Investair Leasing Corporation
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian hostage crisis
Iraq
Iraq Operations Group
ISAF (NATO-led force)
Isikoff, Michael
Jackson, Henry
Janet
Jaspers, Gregory
Jaworski, Leon
JMIP (Joint Military Intelligence Program)
Johnson, Kelly
Joint Special Operations Command
Kabul, Afghanistan
Karcher, Daniel
Karzai, Hamid
Kasza, Stella
Kasza, Walter
Kasza v. Browner
Kellogg Brown and Root
Kenden, Anthony
Kerr, Donald M.
KEYHOLE (KH)-class satellites
Khan, Majid
Khan, Mohammad Qasim Fahim
Khrushchev, Nikita
Killian, James
King Khalid Air Base
Kirkpatrick, William
Kissinger, Henry
Klein, Mark
Koch, Ed
Korematsu, Fred
Kosiak, Steven
Kosovo
Lanni, Joseph A.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Lebedev, Pyotr
Lefebvre, Henri
literature on black sites
Lockheed Martin
government support of
and Groom Lake
HAVE BLUE aircraft
and Plant
Polecat
as private contractor
satellites
Skunk Works
stealth technologies
and United Launch Alliance
Loether, Judy Palya . See also United States v. Reynolds
Longhofer, James E.
Madison, James
Magellan probe
MAGNUM ADVANCED ORION spacecraft
Manhattan Project
Manly, William Lewis
maps, blank spots in
Marcantonio, Vito
Maris, Albert
Martinez, Eugenio
Marx, Karl
Masiello, Thomas
Mason, George
Masood, Ahmad Shah
Mathison, Charles
Maxwell, James Clerk
McCain Amendment
McCan
ts, Mike
McCarren airport
McCarthy, Joe
McConnell, Mike
McCord, James
McDonnell Douglas
McMonagle, Donald R.
MENTOR spacecraft
Mercury, Nevada
MERCURY/ADVANCED VORTEX satellites
Merlin, Peter
Metius, Jacob
Meza, Dina
MI-8 (military intelligence, section 8)
Middle East. See also specific countries
Military Commissions Act
military spending, classified
MISTY
MISTY ZIRCONIC
Mitchell, Edgar L.
Mitchell, Harold
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh
Molczan, Ted
Moonwatch
Morales, David
Morocco
Morse, Phillip H.
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
mujahideen
Mustafa Hotel, Kabul, Afghanistan
Nagasaki, Japan
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA)
National Intelligence Program
National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC)
national security
National Security Act
National Security Council (NSC)
Native Americans
Navy, Department of
Nazis
negligence of the government
Negroponte, John
Neirinck, Pierre
Nellis Complex
Nevada desert
Nevada Test Site
The New York Times
Nicaragua
covert war against
and Enterprise operation
post-war state of
revolution in
security-for-hire in
9/11 Commission
1984 (Orwell)
Nixon, Richard
North, Oliver
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
Northern Alliance
Northrop
NRO L-21
nuclear research
and atomic power
Manhattan Project
nuclear testing
pleas for openness in
secrecy in
observer effect
Office of Policy Coordination
Olson, Theodore B.
One Leasing
160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR)
ONYX imaging satellites
Oppenheimer, Robert
Orwell, George
Ovason, David
PAGEOS (Passive Geodetic Satellite)
Palya, Robert . See also United States v. Reynolds
Panama
Park, Bill
Pastora, Eden
patents
Pavitt, James
Peacekeeper missiles
Peebles, Curtis
Pentagon
Peterson, Mark L.
Pforzheimer, Walter L.