Sep 2, 2022
Journalist Annie Jacobsen visits Google to discuss her book "The
Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's
Top-Secret Military Research Agency".
Ms. Jacobsen has written the first history of the Defense
Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial
military science research & development agency. She draws on inside
sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified
memos to paint a picture of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, or DARPA, from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the
present.
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and bestselling
author who writes about war, weapons, U.S. national security and
government secrecy. Her 2011 non-fiction bestseller, AREA 51: An
Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, has been
published in five languages and is being made into an AMC scripted
television series. Her 2014 non-fiction bestseller, OPERATION
PAPERCLIP: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi
Scientists to America, has been published in five languages and is
being adapted for television.
Originally published in October of 2015.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.