Joseph Stalin and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele joined forces and bred deformed children who looked like aliens but were able to fly advanced aircraft like Top Gun pilots.<\/p>\n
No, seriously. I read it in a book written by “a national security reporter and contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine”<\/em>, one Annie Jacobsen.<\/p>\n I kid you not. The quote is from the New York Times review of her book.<\/p>\n Every major US media outlet thought the book worth a few warm words\u00a0\u2013 the author even appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, that crowning achievement for any aspiring author.<\/p>\n Me? I feel that the book was worth every cent of $15.39 I paid to Amazon.<\/p>\n Because how else would I\u2019ve learned that Stalin wanted to scare gullible Americans at the start of the Cold War and resorted to eugenics with the help of a Top 10 most-wanted Nazi. Oh\u00a0\u2013 and the plane they flew into the heart of the USA was also Nazi-designed\u00a0\u2013 ever heard of the mysterious Horten brothers?<\/p>\n “Child-sized aviators sent by Stalin”<\/em>, in case you still have not got it, are those mysterious “aliens”<\/em> that crashed in Area 51 in Nevada in the late 1940s, becoming the objects of UFOlogists’ obsession pretty much on arrival.<\/p>\n Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen is a true monument.<\/p>\n A monument to the unparalleled ability of mainstream media to accept anything as long as it has a standard set of established villains.<\/p>\n Stalin + Nazi doctor + genetically-engineered children-pilots + Area 51? Total win. Or a synopsis for a new sequel to Deus Ex computer game\u2026 Wait, why is it being profiled in the NYT Book Review and not in PC Gamer mag?<\/p>\n Because they will believe any amount of junk provided it plays on old stereotypes.<\/p>\n “The author of Area 51 is no nut job,\u201d <\/em>muses one Chris Matyszczyk at CNET.com. \u201cShe’s an LA Times magazine contributor who conducted interviews with eyewitnesses \u2014 some of them former scientists from the top-secret former CIA base in New Mexico.”<\/em><\/p>\n The LA Times itself confides that “Annie Jacobsen is an investigative reporter who sat for more than 500 interviews \u2026” Already mentioned New York Times lets us know that “her book is not science fiction. It\u2019s much more levelheaded. It is an assertive account, revelatory but also mystifying.”<\/em><\/p>\n Only News aggregator Newser is more to the point: “It’s nearly as crazy as the UFO theory.”<\/em><\/p>\n Nearly? You said “Nearly?”<\/em><\/p>\n Look, I dig it\u00a0\u2013 the book is a new attempt at rehashing all the rumors about Area 51 and what the Pentagon and CIA were or are doing there for the last 60+ years. Whether you want to believe all those “unnamed sources from 500 interviews”<\/em> is your call\u00a0\u2013 it’s a free world, just pay 15 bucks to the publisher.<\/p>\n But with that key straight-faced unchallenged assertion that “the Nazi plane that was filled with alien-like children, aged 12 or 13, who Stalin wanted to land in America and cause hysteria”?<\/em><\/p>\n How is that for conspiracy theory?<\/p>\n By the way\u00a0\u2013 I just registered my rights for a book about how Putin, with the help of Schwarzenegger and the active participation of Anna Chapman the hot spy, are bent on conquering The Free World with genetically-engineered Russian Blondes.<\/p>\n Majestic 12 are in it too somehow, but I haven\u2019t decided who they are going to be\u00a0\u2013 Justin Bieber is one strong candidate, though.<\/p>\n Russian Blondes will be delivered to California by means of a secret Nazi Anti-gravitational Bell, better known as Die Glocke. Suck it, Horten brothers!<\/p>\n And here I come, Jon Stewart!<\/p>\n