Reveals the dark secrets behind America's post-WWII science programme, which enabled ex-Nazi experts in aerospace and rocketry to come and work for the US, despite their horrific crimes. Draws on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members.
For more than forty years, the U.S. government, through various military and intelligence agencies, has invested millions in classified programs that study the role of mental telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and other forms of extrasensory perception (ESP) as a means of intelligence collection for military and defense purposes. Now, for the first time, New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen will tell the story of these programs,...
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.
Un'indagine avvincente e meticolosa sul luogo più discusso e concupito da ricercatori, curiosi, fan del cospirazionismo e cronisti: l'Area 51, nel deserto del Nevada, cuore di mille intrighi e segreti, in cui si intrecciano storia, politica, spionaggio, test nucleari, esperimenti militari inconfessabili, e perfino gli Ufo. Basandosi non su illazioni ma su colloqui con piloti, scienziati, ingegneri e agenti in pensione che hanno lavorato per an...
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 of 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...
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, e...
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, e...
The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51. In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's s...
A history of the most famous secret military installation in the world, assembled from interviews with the people who served there and formerly classified information.
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 dow...
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, works as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor's family in Kitchener, Ontario, during the Depression. Her world explodes open in her new surroundings, and when Lexi is called home to Saskatchewan to care for her dying mother, she returns a changed person. Here, she finds a diary written by her brother.