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William J. Broad writes about Trevor Paglen’s I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me at the NYT [Bugmenot]. Paglen has collected unofficial unit patches from U.S. covert ops projects. (I particularly like the one that looks like Death from Discworld. And don’t miss Groucho Marx in the slideshow.)

Wizards appear on several patches. The one hurling lightning bolts comes from a secret Air Force base at Groom Lake, northwest of Las Vegas in a secluded valley. Mr. Paglen identifies its five clustered stars and one separate star as a veiled reference to Area 51, where the government tests advanced aircraft and, U.F.O. buffs say, captured alien spaceships.

[via Bookslut]