22+ british SDI engeneers dead in mysterious suicides.

SlaveOfTheBeast · Sep 9, 2007

Since 1988, a total of 22 engineers and researchers involved with Operation Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) were all found dead in mysterious circumstances, all involving apparent suicides.

Fifty-year-old Alistair Beckham was a successful British aerospace- projects engineer. His specialty was designing computer software for sophisticated naval defense systems. Like hundreds of other British scientists, he was working on a pilot program for America's Strategic Defense Initiative--better known as Star Wars. And like at least 21 of his colleagues, he died a bizarre, violent death.

It was a lazy, sunny Sunday afternoon in August 1988. After driving his wife to work, Beckham walked through his garden to a musty backyard toolshed and sat down on a box next to the door. He wrapped bare wires around his chest, attached the to an electrical outlet and put a handkerchief in his mouth. Then he pulled the switch.
http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/sdi-deaths.html
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The eeriest one is Alistar Beckham, who walked to his shed and put wires around his body, and stuck it into an electrical socket. Who honestly kills themselves in such a bizarre fashion of electrocution?

I had asked about the mysterious deaths of computer programmers and scientists, some working for Marconi, some for other defence contractors, and others for the MoD and the government communications headquarters GCHQ.

The 25 deaths in the 1970s and 1980s led to countless articles in many countries around the world, including France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Australia. Separate TV documentaries were made by crews in the UK, US, Canada and Australia. The MoDâ€™s press officers received countless calls from journalists about the deaths; and Lord Weinstock, the then managing director of GEC, one of the government's biggest defence contractors and at that time Marconi's parent company, set up an inquiry.

It was carried out by Brian Worth, former Deputy Assistant Commissioner at New Scotland Yard. He concluded that "on the evidence available that the suicide verdicts reached were credible on their own facts, and in the four cases where open verdicts were returned the probability is that each victim took his own life".

One of the Marconi computer programmers, from London, had gone to Bristol where he tied his neck to a tree and apparently drove off in his car.
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* Marconi employee Vimal Dajibhai (24), who was about to leave Marconi for a higher-paying job, was found dead beneath the Clifton Suspension Bridge in 1986.
* Ashad Sharif, another London programmer, was found dead in Bristol. He was about to take over the running of a department at Marconi's Stanmore headquarters.
* David Sands died when his car, loaded with two cans of petrol, exploded into flames as it crashed into a disused cafÃ©. Sands had just returned from a family holiday in Venice to celebrate the completion of a three-year command-and-control systems project for Marconi's sister company Easams.
* Marconi Space Systems employee Victor Moore (46) had just finished work on infrared satellites at Portsmouth when he was found dead from a drug overdose. His death is said to have instigated an MI5 investigation, the results of which remain secret. There is also a separate investigation into Marconi based at Portsmouth by the Ministry of Defence Serious Crime Squad.
* Two lecturers on top secret projects died in separate 'accidents' of carbon monoxide poisoning. Both had recently returned from America and had conducted research at the Royal Military College in Shrivenham:
o The first, Peter Peapell, a lecturer and underwater acoustics expert, was found dead under his car and the garage door was closed. Although an inquest returned a verdict of accidental death, police are unsure how the accident happened. Despite reports that Peapell had no connections with electronics or computers he had in fact written a book on basic computers. He also had a paper published on underwater acoustic emissions.
o The second, Dr John Brittan, a former computer science officer at the Royal Military College was also found dead in his car. He too was involved in computer simulation.
* In 1988 Stuart Goody (23) a post graduate at the Royal Military College at Shrivenham was killed in Cyprus while on holiday. He died instantly when his hired car collided head on with a lorry. The lorry driver was said to be unhurt. At least one senior employee at the college considered that the death could be significant.
* Avtar Singh-Gida, a researcher working on an important Ministry of Defence underwater project, disappeared just three weeks away from its successful completion.
* In 1988 Robert Greenhalgh, a contracts manager at ICL's defence division at Winnersh near Reading, suffered multiple injuries after falling from a railway bridge on his way to work. The firm admitted he had been positively vetted and may have had access to secret UK and NATO data.
* Shani Warren (26) was a personal assistant in a company called Micro Scope, which was taken over by GEC Marconi less than four weeks after her death. Found drowned in 18in (450mm) of water, not far from the site of Greenhalghâ€™s death fall. Warren died on April 10, 1987, exactly one week after Goody's death and Greenhalgh's injury. She was found gagged with a noose around her neck. Her feet were also bound and her hands tied behind her back. Coronerâ€™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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Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi_Scientists

Tootles · Sep 10, 2007

umok..

lordy boy · Sep 10, 2007

Err.... that sucks.

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