FROM THE ARCHIVES : WAS THERE A PLOT TO MURDER MARCONI SCIENTISTS IN THE 1980s?

Was NATO killing its own scientists to keep them from betraying military secrets to the USSR?

Or was the USSR killing NATO scientists to stop NATO from developing a new deadly missile system?

Sounds like something went on.

Between 1982 and 1990, a cluster of strange and often grisly deaths amongst scientists and computer experts working in Britain’s high-tech defence industry baffled investigators.

Many of the deaths were so bizarre they left coroners unable to determine their cause. Others were judged to be suicides and accidents despite clear evidence to the contrary.

Most of the victims were computer scientists working for Marconi Electronic Systems and related companies on top-secret defence projects, including the US Strategic Defence Initiative.

...Perhaps the most disturbing of all the deaths occurred 2 months later. Arshad Sharif, 26, another computer scientist who worked on satellite guidance systems at Marconi died in the oddest circumstances imaginable.

Sharif also travelled to Bristol, tied one end of a ligature to his neck, the other end to a tree, then jammed his foot on the accelerator of his car and decapitated himself.

[source : The Marconi Murders, The Unredacted, https://theunredacted.com/dead-scientists-the-marconi-murders/, 24th November 2016]