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Located 75 miles outside of Las Vegas, the base has never been
acknowledged by the U.S. government--but Area 51 has captivated
imaginations. Jacobsen had exclusive access to 19 employees, which
makes it the seminal work on the subject.
The author of the acclaimed bestseller "Area 51" reveals the
explosive dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programs.
In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of
Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The
U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former
Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert
operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S.
without the public's full knowledge.
Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family
members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German
archival documents (including papers made newly available by direct
descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers
discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie
Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their
postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and
jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century.
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation
into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize
finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.
This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top
secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government
has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to
locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets,
to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future
threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and
military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy,
Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for
the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen
tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using
never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive
interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of
the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the
first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists,
analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics
themselves. Who did the U.S. government hire for these top secret
programs, and how do they explain their military and intelligence
work? How do scientists approach such enigmatic subject matter?
What interested the government in these supposed powers and does
the research continue? PHENOMENA is a riveting investigation into
how far governments will go in the name of national security.
The explosive, untold story of the Cold War's biggest secret. The
REAL X-Files. It is the most famous military installation in the
world. And no credible insider has ever divulged the truth about
his time inside of it. Until now. This is the first book based on
interviews with scientists, pilots, and engineers - 58 in total -
who provide an unprecedented look into the mysterious activities of
a top-secret base, from the Cold War to today. With a jaw-dropping
ending, it proves that facts are often more fantastic than fiction,
especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.
THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER 'As fast paced as a thriller' Fred Burton,
Stratfor Talks' Pen and Sword Podcast 'Jacobsen here presents a
tour de force exploring the CIA's paramilitary activities...this
excellent work feels like uncovering the tip of the iceberg
...Highly recommended for those seeking a better understanding of
American foreign policy in action' Jacob Sherman, Library Journal
'A behind-the-scenes look at the most shadowy corners of the
American intelligence community...Well-sourced and well-paced, this
book is full of surprises' Kirkus 'Annie Jacobsen takes us inside
the darkest and most morally ambiguous corner of our government,
where politicians ask brave men and women to kill-up close and
personal-on America's behalf' Garrett M. Graff, author of Raven
Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself
- While the Rest of us Die 'This is a first rate book on the CIA,
its paramilitary armies, operators, and assassins' New York Journal
of Books 'Having already demonstrated her remarkable aptitude for
unearthing government secrets in books like Area 51 (2011) and The
Pentagon's Brain (2015), Jacobsen pulls back the curtain on the
history of covert warfare and state sanctioned assassinations from
WWII to the present...Jacobsen's work revealing a poorly understood
but essential slice of warfare history belongs in every library
collection' Booklist The definitive, character-driven history of
CIA covert operations and U.S. government-sponsored assassinations,
from the author of the Pulizter Prize finalist The Pentagon's Brain
Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed
under the C IA-led covert action operations team. Before that time,
responsibility for taking out America's enemies abroad was even
more shrouded in mystery. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute
rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is
actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving
through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the
House and Senate Select Committees. At the end of the day, it is
the President, not the C IA, who is singularly in charge. For the
first time, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling
author Annie Jacobsen takes us deep inside this top-secret history.
With unparalleled access to former operatives, ambassadors, and
even past directors of the Secret Service and CIA operations,
Jacobsen reveals the inner workings of these teams, and just how
far a U.S. president may go, covertly but lawfully, to pursue the
nation's interests.
Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced
Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the
author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51.No one has ever
written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most
powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency.
In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times
bestselling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources,
exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to
paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain," from its Cold
War inception in 1958 to the present.This is the book on DARPA -- a
compelling narrative about this clandestine intersection of science
and the American military and the often frightening results.
The CIA's Secret Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America.
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work
as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Waterloo,
Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome
philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy,
and their two children. Lexi soon adapts to modern conveniences,
happily wears Cammy's expensive cast off clothes, and is
transformed from an innocent into a chic urban beauty. When Lexi is
called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she
returns a changed person.
At home, Lexi finds a journal written by her older brother
during the family's journey from Russia to Canada. In it she reads
of a tragedy kept secret for years, one hat reconciles her early
tmemories of her mother as joyful and loving with the burdened
woman she became in Canada. Lexi returns to Waterloo, where a
crisis of her own, coupled with the knowledge of this secret,
serves as the catalyst for her realization that, unlike her mother,
she must create her own destiny.
"Watermelon Syrup" is a classic bildungsroman: the tale of a
naive young woman at the crossroads of a traditional, restrictive
world and a modern one with its freedom, risks, and
responsibilities.
*The USA Today bestseller* Surprise... your target. Kill... your
enemy. Vanish... without a trace. From Pulitzer Prize finalist
Annie Jacobsen, the untold story of the CIA's secret paramilitary
units. When diplomacy fails, and war is unwise, the president calls
on the CIA's Special Activities Division, a highly classified
branch of the CIA and the most effective, black operations force in
the world. Originally known as the president's guerrilla warfare
corps, SAD conducts risky and ruthless operations that have evolved
over time to defend America from its enemies. Almost every American
president since World War II has asked the CIA to conduct sabotage,
subversion and, yes, assassination. With unprecedented access to
forty-two men and women who proudly and secretly worked on CIA
covert operations from the dawn of the Cold War to the present day,
along with declassified documents and deep historical research,
Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen unveils -- like never before
-- a complex world of individuals working in treacherous
environments populated with killers, connivers and saboteurs.
Despite Hollywood notions of off-book operations and external
secret hires, covert action is actually one piece in a colossal
foreign policy machine. Written with the pacing of a thriller,
SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH brings to vivid life the sheer pandemonium
and chaos, as well as the unforgettable human will to survive and
the intellectual challenge of not giving up hope that define
paramilitary and intelligence work. Jacobsen's exclusive interviews
-- with members of the CIA's Senior Intelligence Service
(equivalent to the Pentagon's generals), its counterterrorism
chiefs, targeting officers, and Special Activities Division's
Ground Branch operators who conduct today's close-quarters killing
operations around the world -- reveal, for the first time, the
enormity of this shocking, controversial and morally complex
terrain. Is the CIA's paramilitary army America's weaponized
strength, or a liability to its principled standing in the world?
Every operation reported in this book, however unsettling, is
legal.
The definitive history of the military's decades-long investigation
into mental powers and phenomena, from the author of Pulitzer Prize
finalist The Pentagon's Brain and international bestseller Area 51.
This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top
secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government
has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to
locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets,
to divine other nations' secrets, and even to predict future
threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and
military services involved include CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy,
Air Force, and Army-and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for
the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen
tells the story of these radical, controversial programs, using
never before seen declassified documents as well as exclusive
interviews with, and unprecedented access to, more than fifty of
the individuals involved. Speaking on the record, many for the
first time, are former CIA and Defense Department scientists,
analysts, and program managers, as well as the government psychics
themselves. Who did the U.S. government hire for these top secret
programs, and how do they explain their military and intelligence
work? How do scientists approach such enigmatic subject matter?
What interested the government in these supposed powers and does
the research continue? Phenomena is a riveting investigation into
how far governments will go in the name of national security.
"Area 51"
It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it
doesn't exist. Located a mere seventy-five miles outside of Las
Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by
the U.S. government-but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for
decades.
Myths and hypotheses about Area 51 have long abounded, thanks to
the intense secrecy enveloping it. Some claim it is home to aliens,
underground tunnel systems, and nuclear facilities. Others believe
that the lunar landing itself was filmed there. The prevalence of
these rumors stems from the fact that no credible insider has ever
divulged the truth about his time inside the base. Until now.
Annie Jacobsen had exclusive access to nineteen men who served the
base proudly and secretly for decades and are now aged 75-92, and
unprecedented access to fifty-five additional military and
intelligence personnel, scientists, pilots, and engineers linked to
the secret base, thirty-two of whom lived and worked there for
extended periods. In "Area 51, "Jacobsen shows us what has really
gone on in the Nevada desert, from testing nuclear weapons to
building super-secret, supersonic jets to pursuing the War on
Terror.
This is the first book based on interviews with eye witnesses to
Area 51 history, which makes it the seminal work on the subject.
Filled with formerly classified information that has never been
accurately decoded for the public, "Area 51" weaves the mysterious
activities of the top-secret base into a gripping narrative,
showing that facts are often more fantastic than fiction,
especially when the distinction is almost impossible to make.
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