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The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History Of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published October 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM EDT

  Annie Jacobsen is the best-selling-author of Area 51 and Operation Paper Clip. Now drawing on years of research, exclusive interviews, and private documents Jacobs has written a history of Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) the world's most powerful and advanced military science agency and the Government's most controversial secret weapon. 

The name of the book is The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History Of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency.
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