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The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

~Annie Jacobsen

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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.

~Annie Jacobsen

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The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

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Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

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In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

~Annie Jacobsen

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Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.

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The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

~Annie Jacobsen

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With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

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Area 51 is located in southern Nevada desert about 75 miles north of Las Vegas. It's set inside a greater land parcel that's about the size of the state of Connecticut that's called the 'Nevada Test and Training Range.'

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I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in '47. And by the '50s, it was in full force.

~Annie Jacobsen

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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