Annie Jacobsen's Blog

My new book's main character is the indomitable Billy Waugh, a CIA legend (60+years) and former U.S. Army Green Beret.

He's one of 42 sources who sat with me for hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, including two surviving members of the OSS; eight individuals who served the CIA at the Senior Intelligence Service (SIS) level; eleven chiefs of station from countries on five continents; numerous chiefs of base who served in some of the world’s most dangerous outposts, including in Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan; nineteen operators from the Special Activities Division (SAD), Ground Branch; and a CIA attorney who wrote scores of classified Presidential Findings.

Every operation reported in SURPRISE, KILL, VANISH, however shocking, was legal -- and at the President's behest.

I hope you like OPERATION PAPERCLIP. The reviews have been phenomenal, so far.

Read an excerpt of OPERATION PAPERCLIP:
http://ow.ly/tqjko

Win AREA 51 first edition signed by me and Chris Carter:
http://ow.ly/tqilI

Great review of OPERATION PAPERCLIP by Maureen Callahan in the New York Post.
http://nyp.st/MnVXuA

19 days til OPERATION PAPERCLIP. Was NASA hero Wernher von Braun really once a member of the dreaded, ultra-nationalistic Nazi paramilitary squad, the SS? Please also join me on Twitter @AnnieJacobsen

Goodreads, good news. A second fan. My husband.

This is my first blog post. I'd like to thank Vincent Horton for being my first, and presently only, fan. Thanks Vincent!
--Annie