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Re: Scientists' Deaths

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From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:37
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In <C1FCzD.EHs.1@cs.cmu.edu> KitchenRN@ssd0.laafb.af.mil writes:

>Several years ago (don't ask me how many) there were *several* postings, 
>including excerpts from British newspapers, about the spate of "suicides" and 
>"accidental deaths" of British space scientists in comp.risks.  If anybody is 
>really interested in doing the research, instead of just sarcastically 
>dismissing them as crackpot conspiracy fodder, they can look it up in the 
>Risks archive.

I remember hearing this particular conspiracy theory years ago, back
when it had nothing to do with space.  Something about people employed
at a TS research facility for communications decryption -- the UK
version of the NSA.  Just because something is from across the Pond
doesn't mean that it didn't start with conspiracy theorists over
there. 



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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
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