- If you see any incorrect dates or errors, please provide
me with accurate information,
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- Thank you,
- Mark
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- Marconi Scientists Mystery
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- In the 1980's over two dozen science graduates and experts
working for Marconi or Plessey Defence Systems died in mysterious circumstances,
most appearing to be suicides., The MOD denied these scientists had been
involved in classified Star Wars Projects and that the deaths were in any
way connected. Judge for yourself...
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- March 1982: Professor Keith Bowden, 46
- --Expertise: Computer programmer and scientist at Essex
University engaged in work for Marconi, who was hailed as an expert on
super computers and computer-controlled aircraft.
- --Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when his vehicle
went out of control across a dual carriageway and plunged onto a disused
railway line. Police maintained he had been drinking but family and friends
all denied the allegation.
- --Coroner's verdict: Accident.
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- April 1983: Lt-Colonel Anthony Godley, 49
- --Expertise: Head of the Work Study Unit at the Royal
College of Military Science.
- --Circumstance of Death: Disappeared mysteriously in
April 1983 without explanation. Presumed dead.
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- March 1985: Roger Hill, 49
- --Expertise: Radar designer and draughtsman with Marconi.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died by a shotgun blast at home.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- November 19, 1985: Jonathan Wash, 29
- --Expertise: Digital communications expert who had worked
at GEC and at British Telecom's secret research centre at Martlesham Heath,
Suffolk.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of falling
from a hotel room in Abidjan, West Africa, while working for British Telecom.
He had expressed fears that his life was in danger.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- August 4, 1986: Vimal Dajibhai, 24
- --Expertise: Computer software engineer with Marconi,
responsible for testing computer control systems of Tigerfish and Stingray
torpedoes at Marconi Underwater Systems at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire.
- --Circumstance of Death: Death by 74m (240ft.) fall from
Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol. Police report on the body mentioned
a needle-sized puncture wound on the left buttock, but this was later dismissed
as being a result of the fall. Dajibhai had been looking forward to starting
a new job in the City of London and friends had confirmed that there was
no reason for him to commit suicide. At the time of his death he was in
the last week of his work with Marconi.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- October 1986: Arshad Sharif, 26
- --Expertise: Reported to have been working on systems
for the detection of submarines by satellite.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of placing
a ligature around his neck, tying the other end to a tree and then driving
off in his car with the accelerator pedal jammed down. His unusual death
was complicated by several issues: Sharif lived near Vimal Dajibhai in
Stanmore, Middlesex, he committed suicide in Bristol and, inexplicably,
had spent the last night of his life in a rooming house. He had paid for
his accommodation in cash and was seen to have a bundle of high-denomination
banknotes in his possession. While the police were told of the banknotes,
no mention was made of them at the inquest and they were never found. In
addition, most of the other guests at the rooming house worked at British
Aerospace prior to working for Marconi, Sharif had also worked at British
Aerospace on guided weapons technology.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- January 1987: Richard Pugh, 37
- --Expertise: MOD computer consultant and digital communications
expert.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his flat in with
his feet bound and a plastic bag over his head. Rope was tied around his
body, coiling four times around his neck.
- --Coroner's verdict: Accident.
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- January 12, 1987: Dr. John Brittan, 52
- --Expertise: Scientist formerly engaged in top secret
work at the Royal College of Military Science at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire,
and later deployed in a research department at the MOD.
- --Circumstance of Death: Death by carbon monoxide poisoning
in his own garage, shortly after returning from a trip to the US in connection
with his work.
- --Coroner's verdict: Accident.
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- February 1987: David Skeels, 43
- --Expertise: Engineer with Marconi.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead in his car with a
hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- February 1987: Victor Moore, 46
- --Expertise: Design Engineer with Marconi Space and Defence
Systems.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died from an overdose.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- February 22, 1987: Peter Peapell, 46
- --Expertise: Scientist at the Royal College of Military
Science. He had been working on testing titanium for it's resistance to
explosives and the use of computer analysis of signals from metals.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead allegedly from carbon
monoxide poisoning, in his Oxfordshire garage. The circumstances of his
death raised some elements of doubt. His wife had found him on his back
with his head parallel to the rear car bumper and his mouth in line with
the exhaust pipe, with the car engine running. Police were apparently baffled
as to how he could have manoeuvred into the position in which he was found.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- April 1987: George Kountis age unknown.
- --Expertise: Systems Analyst at Bristol Polytechnic.
- --Circumstance of Death: Drowned the same day as Shani
Warren (see below) - as the result of a car accident, his upturned car
being found in the River Mersey, Liverpool.
- --Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
- (Kountis, sister called for a fresh inquest as she thought
'things didn't add up.')
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- April 10, 1987: Shani Warren, 26
- --Expertise: Personal assistant in a company called Micro
Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her
death.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found drowned in 45cm. (18in)
of water, not far from the site of David Greenhalgh's death fall. Warren
died exactly one week after the death of Stuart Gooding and serious injury
to Greenhalgh. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet
were also bound and her hands tied behind her back.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
- (It was said that Warren had gagged herself, tied her
feet with rope, then tied her hands behind her back and hobbled to the
lake on stiletto heels to drown herself.)
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- April 10, 1987: Stuart Gooding, 23
- --Expertise: Postgraduate research student at the Royal
College of Military Science.
- --Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash while on holiday
in Cyprus. The death occurred at the same time as college personnel were
carrying out exercises on Cyprus.
- --Coroner's verdict: Accident.
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- April 24, 1987: Mark Wisner, 24
- --Expertise: Software engineer at the MOD.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead on in a house shared
with two colleagues. He was found with a plastic sack around his head and
several feet of cling film around his face. The method of death was almost
identical to that of Richard Pugh some three months earlier.
- --Coroner's verdict: Accident.
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- March 30, 1987: David Sands, 37
- --Expertise: Senior scientist working for Easams of Camberley,
Surrey, a sister company to Marconi. Dr. John Brittan had also worked at
Camberley.
- --Circumstance of Death: Fatal car crash when he allegedly
made a sudden U-turn on a dual carriageway while on his way to work, crashing
at high speed into a disused cafeteria. He was found still wearing his
seat belt and it was discovered that the car had been carrying additional
petrol cans. None of the normal, reasons for a possible suicide could be
found.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- May 3, 1987: Michael Baker, 22
- --Expertise: Digital communications expert working on
a defence project at Plessey; part-time member of Signals Corps SAS.
- --Circumstance of Death: Fatal accident owhen his car
crashed through a barrier near Poole in Dorset.
- --Coroner's verdict: Misadventure.
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- June 1987: Jennings, Frank, 60.
- --Expertise: Electronic Weapons Engineer with Plessey.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead from a heart attack.
- --No inquest.
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- January 1988: Russell Smith, 23
- --Expertise: Laboratory technician with the Atomic Energy
Research Establishment at Harwell, Essex.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died as a result of a cliff
fall at Boscastle in Cornwall.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- March 25, 1988: Trevor Knight, 52
- --Expertise: Computer engineer with Marconi Space and
Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead at his home in Harpenden,
Hertfordshire at the wheel of his car with a hosepipe connected to the
exhaust. A St.Alban's coroner said that Knight's woman friend, Miss Narmada
Thanki (who also worked with him at Marconi) had found three suicide notes
left by him which made clear his intentions. Miss Thanki had mentioned
that Knight disliked his work but she did not detect any depression that
would have driven him to suicide.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- August 1988: Alistair Beckham, 50
- --Expertise: Software engineer with Plessey Defence Systems.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found dead after being electrocuted
in his garden shed with wires connected to his body.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open.
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- August 22, 1988: Peter Ferry, 60
- --Expertise: Retired Army Brigadier and an Assistant
Marketing Director with Marconi.
- --Circumstance of Death: Found on 22nd or 23rd August
1988 electrocuted in his company flat with electrical leads in his mouth.
- --Coroner's verdict: Open
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- September 1988: Andrew Hall, 33
- --Expertise: Engineering Manager with British Aerospace.
- --Circumstance of Death: Carbon monoxide poisoning in
a car with a hosepipe connected to the exhaust.
- --Coroner's verdict: Suicide.
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- Above list compiled by Raymond A. Robinson in 'The Alien
Intent'
- (A Dire Warning)
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- http://www.geocities.com/orgonegal/marconi-scientists.html
- (Note: link above is dead)
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- Date?: Dr. C. Bruton
- --Expertise: He had just produced a paper on a new strain
of CJD. He was a CJD specialist who was killed before his work was announced
to the public.
- --Circumstance of Death: died in a car crash.
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- 1994/95?: Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi
- --Expertise: Veterinary mycoplasma and had worked with
various mycoplasmas in the 1980s at Plum Island.
- --Circumstance of Death: He was killed in his native
Iraq while he was changing a flat tire and hit by a truck.
- Source: Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
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- 1996: Tsunao Saitoh, 46
- --Expertise: A leading Alzheimer's researcher
- --Circumstance of Death: He and his 13 year-old daughter
were killed in La Jolla, California, in what a Reuters report described
as a "very professionally done" shooting. He was dead behind
the wheel of the car, the side window had been shot out, and the door was
open. His daughter appeared to have tried to run away and she was shot
dead, also.
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- Dec 25, 1997: Sidney Harshman, 67
- --Expertise: Professor of microbiology and immunology.
- "He was the world's leading expert on staphylococcal
alpha toxins," according to Conrad Wagner, professor of biochemistry
at Vanderbilt and a close friend of Professor Harshman. "He also deeply
cared for other people and was always eager to help his students and colleagues."
- --Circumstance of Death: Complications of diabetes
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- July 10, 1998: Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., 46
- --Expertise: An associate professor with tenure in the
pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University
Hospitals of Cleveland. She was also a member of the executive committee
for the Center for AIDS Research and directed the biosafety level 3 facility,
a specialized laboratory for the handling of HIV, virulent TB bacteria,
and other infectious agents.
- --Circumstance of Death: Killed in a traffic accident
while visiting family in Tennessee
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- September 1998: Jonathan Mann, 51
- --Expertise: Founding director of the World Health Organisation's
global Aids programme and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive
Aids research effort in Africa at the time, and in 1986 he joined the WHO
to lead the global response against Aids. He became director of WHO's global
programme on Aids which later became the UNAids programme. He then became
director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights,
which was set up at Harvard School of Public Health in 1993. He caused
controversy earlier this year in the post when he accused the US National
Institutes of Health of violating human rights by failing to act quickly
on developing Aids vaccines.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died in the Swissair Flight
111 crash in Canada.
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- April 15, 2000: Walter W. Shervington, M.D., 62
- --Expertise: An extensive writer/ lecturer/ researcher
about mental health and AIDS in the African American community.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died of cancer at Tulane Medical
Hospital.
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- July 16, 2000: Mike Thomas, 35
- --Expertise: A microbiologist at the Crestwood Medical
Center in Huntsville.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died a few days after examining
a sample taken from a 12-year-old girl who was diagnosed with meningitis
and survived.
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- December 25, 2000: Linda Reese, 52
- --Expertise: Microbiologist working with victims of meningitis.
- --Circumstance of Death: Died three days after she studied
a sample from Tricia Zailo, 19, a Fairfield, N.J., resident who was a sophomore
at Michigan State University. Tricia Zailo died Dec. 18, a few days after
she returned home for the holidays.
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- May 7 2001: Professor Janusz Jeljaszewicz
- --Expertise: Expert in Staphylococci and Staphylococcal
Infections. His main scientific interests and achievements were in the
mechanism of action and biological properties of staphylococcal toxins,
and included the immunomodulatory properties and experimental treatment
of tumours by Propionibacterium.
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- November 2001: Yaacov Matzner, 54 --Expertise: Dean of
the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and chairman
of the Israel Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusions, was the son
of Holocaust survivors. One of the world's experts on blood diseases including
familiar Mediterranean fever (FMF), Matzner conducted research that led
to a genetic test for FMF. He was working on cloning the gene connected
to FMF and investigating the normal physiological function of amyloid A,
a protein often found in high levels in people with blood cancer.
- --Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and
Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their
plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
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- November 2001: Professor Amiram Eldor, 59
- --Expertise: Head of the haematology institute, Tel Aviv's
Ichilov Hospital and worked for years at Hadassah-University Hospital's
haematology department but left for his native Tel Aviv in 1993 to head
the haematology institute at Ichilov Hospital. He was an internationally
known expert on blood clotting especially in women who had repeated miscarriages
and was a member of a team that identified eight new anti-clotting agents
in the saliva of leeches.
- --Circumstance of Death: Professors Yaacov Matzner and
Amiram Eldor were on their way back to Israel via Switzerland when their
plane came down in dense forest three kilometres short of the landing field.
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- November 6, 2001: Jeffrey Paris Wall, 41
- --Expertise: He was a biomedical expert who held a medical
degree, and he also specialized in patent and intellectual property.
- --Circumstance of Death: Mr. Walls body was found sprawled
next to a three-story parking structure near his office. He had studied
at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Nov. 16, 2001: Don C. Wiley, 57
- --Expertise: One of the foremost microbiologists in the
United States. Dr. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard
University, was an expert on how the immune system responds to viral attacks
such as the classic doomsday plagues of HIV, ebola and influenza.
- --Circumstance of Death: Police found his rental car
on a bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. His body was found Dec. 20 in the Mississippi
River.
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- Nov. 21, 2001: Vladimir Pasechnik, 64
- --Expertise: World-class microbiologist and high-profile
Russian defector; defected to the United Kingdom in 1989, played a huge
role in Russian biowarfare and helped to figure out how to modify cruise
missiles to deliver the agents of mass biological destruction.
- --Background: founded Regma Biotechnologies company in
Britain, a laboratory at Porton Down, the country´s chem-bio warfare
defense establishment. Regma currently has a contract with the U.S. Navy
for "the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of anthrax".
- --Circumstance of Death: The pathologist who did the
autopsy, and who also happened to be associated with Britain´s spy
agency, concluded he died of a stroke. Details of the postmortem were not
revealed at an inquest, in which the press was given no prior notice. Colleagues
who had worked with Pasechnik said he was in good health.
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- Dec. 10, 2001: Robert M. Schwartz, 57
- --Expertise: Expert in DNA sequencing and pathogenic
micro-organisms, founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association,
and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia´s
Center for Innovative Technology in Herndon.
- --Circumstance of Death: stabbed and slashed with what
police believe was a sword in his farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. His daughter,
who identifies herself as a pagan high priestess, and several of her fellow
pagans have been charged.
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- Dec. 14, 2001: Nguyen Van Set, 44
- --Expertise: animal diseases facility of the Commonwealth
Scientific and Industrial Research Organization had just come to fame for
discovering a virulent strain of mousepox, which could be modified to affect
smallpox.
- --Circumstance of Death: died at work in Geelong, Australia,
in a laboratory accident. He entered an airlocked storage lab and died
from exposure to nitrogen.
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- January 2002: Ivan Glebov and Alexi Brushlinski.
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