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Annie Jacobsen

Biography

Annie Jacobsen

Annie Jacobsen is the author of the New York Times bestsellers AREA 51 and OPERATION PAPERCLIP, and was a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. A graduate of Princeton University, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Annie Jacobsen

Books by Annie Jacobsen

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
by Annie Jacobsen - History, Nonfiction

In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany's resources were the Third Reich's scientific minds. The U.S. government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis' knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the U.S. without the public's full knowledge. Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious and jealously guarded government secrets of the 20th century.