Trevor Paglen's series of documents, Seventeen Letters from the Deep State (2011), are photocopies of what appear to be forged US State Department letters authorizing «extraordinary rendition,» the illegal transfer of suspected terrorists outside the bounds of legally protected territories for the purpose of
gathering intelligence via torture.
Stallworth, who is black, was able to
gather all sorts of
intelligence by pretending to be a white supremacist on the phone or
via other forms of correspondence.