![]() It makes me wonder if her work on Nazi scientists coming to the US after WW2 is as good a source as I thought it was. I hope she comes down on the side of 'this is nonsense but the question of why big governments spent resources on it is interesting.' To even address such subjects is -ahem- an unusual editorial choice. Jacobsen has added some details, and the U.S. ![]() It isn’t terribly secret anymore, of course, and it was never very intelligent. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, which I have NOT read. Annie Jacobsen’s new book is called Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America. On the other hand, she has written a book about UFOs ( Area 51, which I read, has some good stuff, some irksome stuff), then there is Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Just poking around outside r/AskHistorians, The Wall Street Journal and NYT gave generally positive reviews. Operation Paperclip Format: Paperback / softback Order now ships tomorrow Author Biography: Annie Jacobsen was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles. (Think of the movies Inglorious Basterds + Boys From Brazil + The A Team, and everyone's car in the 1970s can fit a body in the trunk - amusing but oh boy do they take a swing and a miss with proper history.)Īnnie Jacobsen is a journalist doing history, but she is a good storyteller. ![]() It follows a team of misfits in the 1970s hunting Nazis in the US. ![]() ![]() I read Annie Jacobsen's Operation Paperclip, a book about the Nazi scientists who came to the US after WW2, to cleanse my palate after watching an amusing but historically dodgy TV series The Hunters. ![]()
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