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Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe

TechnologyApril 22, 20261 min readAttributed summary
Tabloid reports linking 10 missing and dead scientists spur FBI probe
FBI suspects foreign spies may be targeting scientists with access to government secrets.
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The US is investigating a possible conspiracy after at least 10 scientists connected to US nuclear secrets and rocket technology went missing or died under shadowy circumstances over the past few years.

Pointing to tabloid reports from The Daily Mail and The New York Post, Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sought information about each missing or departed scientist. In letters to the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Reps. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) said the tabloid reports had raised "questions about a possible sinister connection between a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances."

"If the reports are accurate, these deaths and disappearances may represent a grave threat to US national security and to US personnel with access to scientific secrets," the letters said.

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