15 Eccentric Selected Quotes By - Annie Jacobsen

15 Eccentric Selected Quotes By - Annie Jacobsene

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

— Annie Jacobsen

In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

— Annie Jacobsen

I do believe that the truth gets out.

— Annie Jacobsen

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

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.

— Annie Jacobsen

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

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

— Annie Jacobsen

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

— Annie Jacobsen

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

The CIA teamed up with Army, Air Force and Naval Intelligence to run one of the most nefarious, classified, enhanced interrogation programs of the Cold War. The work took place inside a clandestine facility in the American zone of occupied Germany, called Camp King.

— Annie Jacobsen

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

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

— Annie Jacobsen

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

— Annie Jacobsen

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

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

— Annie Jacobsen

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