Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2024-05-13
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Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Button
Discussed“He wrote his own book with a colleague called The Button.”
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Area 51
“My first book, Area 51, is about a a joint CIA Air Force base out there in the Nevada desert inside a secret test and training range where the United States government used to explode nuclear weapons.”
Own book Area 51
“When I wrote the book Area 51 the word Area 51 was still classified.”
Own book The Pentagon's Brain
“I wrote about in The Pentagon's Brain, if you want a little homework, you know, and you go into the back and in the index and look up brainwashing.”
Own book Surprise, Kill, Vanish
“The most sort of comprehensive look I did at the CIA was a book called Surprise, Kill, Vanish, which is about the CIA's paramilitary.”
Own book The Pentagon's Brain
“It's something I covered at length in The Pentagon's Brain, which is the book about DARPA.”
Own book The Pentagon's Brain
“And it was giant vacuum tubes, and he would do these tests, and I describe this in The Pentagon's Brain, because it's really interesting to think this was only in 1945.”
Own book Surprise, Kill, Vanish
“Another person that comes to mind was Billy Waugh in the Surprise Kill Vanish book, sort of the longest serving singleton for the US government as a paramilitary operator.”