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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
- Subject: Re: "suicides" of SDI scientists
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.214243.21269@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <C1DxM5.Ev.1@cs.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:42:43 GMT
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- In article <C1DxM5.Ev.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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- >...there's a significant chance that you read either this story or a reference
- >to this story, and now you remember it as an historical event.
- >
- >Or, maybe, [lowers voice to ominous tone]
- >it...wasn't...just...a...story!!! [eerie music plays in background]
- >
- > :-)
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- In fact, it *was* an historical event. About four years ago(?), the media
- spent a great deal of time pondering a number of "suspicious" suicides
- of defence scientists working in Britain for companies like Marconi
- Space and Defence. It's even possible that "60 Minutes" ran a segment
- on the issue. Nothing was ever proven, though, and the media lost
- interest. As I recall, the suspicious nature of the deaths was raised
- by the victim's families who asked the media to investigate on their behalf.
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- Dave Michelson University of British Columbia
- davem@ee.ubc.ca Antenna Laboratory
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