Annie Jacobsen  Annie Jacobsen (born June 28, 1967) is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She was a contributing editor to the "Los Angeles Times Magazine" from 2009 until 2012. Jacobsen writes about war, weapons, security, and secrets. Jacobsen is best known as the author of the 2011 non-fiction book, "", which "The New York Times" called "cauldron-stirring." She is an internationally acclaimed and sometimes controversial author who, according to one critic, writes sensational books by addressing popular conspiracies. Her 2011 book, "", addresses the Roswell UFO incident. The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes, reviewing the book in "The Washington Post", called the book "error-ridden," pointing out that she relies on a single source for her claim that in the 1940s Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sent a Nazi-designed flying disc filled with 13-year-olds with surgically enlarged heads into the United States to scare Americans as part of a black propaganda hoax modeled after "The War of the Worlds". He concluded that "Jacobsen shows herself at a minimum extraordinarily gullible or journalistically incompetent." Jacobsen's book, Area 51, was on "The New York Times" Best Seller list for thirteen weeks and has been translated into six languages. "Area 51" is being developed into an AMC Series with Gale Anne Hurd as executive producer. Jacobsen's 2014 book, "Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America" was called "perhaps the most comprehensive, up-to-date narrative available to the general public" in a review by Jay Watkins of the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence. "Operation Paperclip" was included in a list of the best books of 2014 by "The Boston Globe". Space historian Michael J. Neufeld gave a negative review of the book: "I cannot endorse Operation Paperclip because: it is error-ridden, it produces no fundamentally new information, it is unbalanced, and its notes are poor." Jacobsen contributed to the October 24, 2019 Throughline Podcast The Dark Side of the Moon podcast episode. "The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top Secret Military Research Agency," was chosen as finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in history. The Pulitzer committee described the book as "A brilliantly researched account of a small but powerful secret government agency whose military research profoundly affects world affairs." "The Washington Post", "The Boston Globe" and the Amazon Editors chose "Pentagon's Brain" as one of the best non-fiction books of 2015.