Ep273 - Annie Jacobsen | An Uncensored History of DARPA

<p><span data-sheets-value= "{"1":2,"2":"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\". \n\nMs. 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.\n\nAnnie 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.\n\nOriginally published in October of 2015.\n\nVisit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/DARPAUncensored to watch the video."}" data-sheets-userformat= "{"2":957,"3":{"1":0},"5":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"6":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"7":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"8":{"1":[{"1":2,"2":0,"5":{"1":2,"2":0}},{"1":0,"2":0,"3":3},{"1":1,"2":0,"4":1}]},"10":0,"11":4,"12":0}" data-sheets-formula= "=R[-13]C[0]&" Visit http://g.co/TalksAtGoogle/"&R[-5]C[0]&" to watch the video.""> 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".<br /> <br /> Ms. Jacobsen has written the first history of the Defense Department's most secret, most po