Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist, author and 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist in history. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012. Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 nonfiction book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, which the New York Times called "cauldron-stirring."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.
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One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the 'Beast of Kandahar' which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.
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To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.
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In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.
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For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination.
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Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?
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The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.