“I believe that what the source told me is true, to him. Jacobsen later refused to name her sole source for this cockamamie story and not-so-cleverly insisted, This is a book in which she claims that an unidentified flying object cited in 1948 was actually a flying saucer sent by Joseph Stalin and flown by mutant, bug-eyed teenagers created by the notorious Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele. Dick Teresi critically reviewed Jacobsen’s “Phenomena,” a silly book about the paranormal, and archly observed that “Jacobsen’s sources should have used mind control to get her a more receptive Times reviewer.” Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes called one of her books (“Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base”) an “error-ridden job of reporting” and accused her of being “at a minimum extraordinarily gullible or journalistically incompetent.” Rhodes was being gentle. Her topics - Nazi scientists, UFOs, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the history of government-financed investigations of the paranormal - must appeal to some readers’ desire for astounding revelations. From Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, the untold USA Today bestselling story of the CIAs secret paramilitary units.
Annie Jacobsen has a history of publishing sensational, conspiracy-driven books that sell well. It doesnt give the impression that the author wishes to see the CIA abolished, merely controlled.
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