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GEC-Marconi scientist deaths conspiracy theory

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  • 07-02-2020 2:36am
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    tdf7187
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    What are people's views on this? It's one of the few conspiracy theories I take seriously. It was never properly established why so many scientists working in sensitive areas during the latter end of the Cold War for the British armaments firm GEC-Marconi died unnatural deaths.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC-Marconi_scientist_deaths_conspiracy_theory


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    Hoop66
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    What is it that you wish to discuss regarding this?

    As I understand it, just posting a link is frowned upon.

    Also, there's not a huge amount of info on that link in the first place.


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    tdf7187
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭tdf7187


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    What is it that you wish to discuss regarding this?

    As I understand it, just posting a link is frowned upon.

    Also, there's not a huge amount of info on that link in the first place.

    Point taken. I've edited to add my own take. There is a previous thread on this in Conspiracy Theories that has more detail.


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    banie01
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    Quite a plausible theory IMO.

    The Russians were chasing ways to slow down the US/UK technological edge.

    The UK scientists were quite a bit more vulnerable than the US ones and a dead scientist could quite easily delay progress on a project.

    GEC-Marconi were also heavily involved in advanced radar development and some of their radar researchers encountered similar mysterious ends during the development of the foxhunter radar iirc.


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