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In 2001, Katie Couric told 'Today Show' audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened - that it was staged in the Nevada desert.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: American Audiences Desert Doubt Happened Landing Moon Nevada Percent Show Staged Today

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The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.

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Topics: About Actually Area Dispute Happened Hard Myths Problem Record Speak

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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.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Anonymity Area Cold Cold War Conspiracy Country Covert Cultivated Decades Grave Height Imagination Left Men Most Popular Projects Pursuing Secrets Some Take Theories Thought War Were While

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Urban legend has it that Area 51 is connected by underground tunnels and trains to other secret facilities around the country.

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Topics: Area Around Connected Country Facilities Legend Other Secret Trains Underground Urban

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Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Area Engineers Hallmark Many Technology Worked

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The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Activities Been Between Camp Cia Defense Department Either Fully King Late Never 1950S

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Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Back Because Being Bomb Develop Early Experiments Facility Hydrogen Incredibly Inside Liquid Objective Plane Program Shelter Skunk Spy Volatile Walls Were Works 1950S

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Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?

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Topics: Espionage International Thought Who Would 1950S

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Because it flew without a pilot, the D-21 was designed to fly over territory where the U.S. was denied access and to take photographs of weapons facilities from altitudes as low as 1,500 feet. But the project was canceled on July 30, 1966, after a fatal accident at sea during the drone's first official launch.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Access Accident After Because Denied Designed Facilities Fatal Feet First Flew Fly July Launch Low Official Over Photographs Pilot Project Sea Take Territory Weapons Where Without

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Since 9/11, the Justice Department has been widely criticized for one particular tactic it uses in fighting the War on Terror: it detains suspicious persons for long periods of time and puts them under heavy questioning before they are ever even charged with a crime.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Been Before Charged Crime Criticized Department Even Ever Fighting Heavy Justice Long Long Periods Particular Periods Persons Puts Questioning Since Suspicious Tactic Terror Them Time Uses War Widely

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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