black site

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Noun

black site (plural black sites)

  1. (military) A location at which an unacknowledged black operation or black project is conducted.
    • 2020, Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad, quoting Trevor Paglen, Rethinking Art and Visual Culture: The Poetics of Opacity, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 136:
      Noting the dearth of serious research on black sites, Paglen endeavored to produce a book that would reveal “how the United States has become dependent on spaces created through secrecy, spaces that lie outside the rule of law, outside the Constitution, outside the democratic ideal of equal rights, transparent government, and informed consent.”

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