Annie Jacobsen

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473 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

Annie Jacobsen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Talking Scared · 289 – Annie Jacobsen & Be Afraid… Be Very Afraid · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And there's so much baggage around America's response to terrorism that I chose also not to do it for that reason because, you know, you really don't want to have to deal with it. voice-verified

But I must ask you, are the pets dogs or cats or both for you? voice-verified

They're dogs. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

So there you go. voice-verified

But you have to stay away from rabies. voice-verified

I mean, no, because, well, actually, I mean, I'll refer to a, voice-verified

an earlier book because again, the point is pressure, not panic. voice-verified

The scenarios I read about have not happened. voice-verified

They don't have to happen. voice-verified

But what horrified me more than anything was something that did happen. voice-verified

And I'm going to tread lightly when I tell you this here, because I'm the journalist who is always aware that I'm writing about really distressing subjects. voice-verified

And I have to be voice-verified

I want people to read my books and I know that there is a bridge too far, okay? voice-verified

And when I was writing Operation Paperclip about the Nazi scientists that came to America to create America's weapons of mass destruction programs, and this is like a program that is shocking and it's all sourced from the National Archives. voice-verified

And the American government literally pulled some of these Nazi scientists off the dock at Nuremberg and hired them. voice-verified

And it was all very secret for decades. voice-verified

This kind of loops in with biology because we know the doctors, the Nazi doctors were experimenting on humans voice-verified

in concentration camps because that's a way to speed up test results. voice-verified

It takes a long time if you're experimenting on rabbits and then primates. voice-verified

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