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During the 1980s, amid the peak of the cold war’s technology race, a series of peculiar deaths among scientists working in Britain's defense industry began to baffle investigators. Most of the victims were research staff of Marconi Electronic Systems, with the majority being computer scientists working on defense projects associated with US Strategic Defense Initiative research and development. Furthermore, many of these deaths were under bizarre circumstances with their underlying causes ruled as undeterminable.
While the Marconi deaths grabbed the headlines, it was also accompanied by other suspicious deaths throughout the defense industry of Europe. In 1986, several West German scientists working on projects tied to the Strategic Defense Initiative were also found dead under mysterious circumstances. All of which had been involved either directly or peripherally in the Strategic Defense initiative program and its related projects. Among them, UK’s Computer Weekly correspondent Tony Collins, would file a series of noteworthy stories investigating the deaths.
In 1990 Collins would go on to publish his book, ‘Open Verdict’, chronicling the series of deaths and the suspicious anecdotal evidence that tied them together. However, despite the overwhelming evidence of a clandestine plot to hinder the UK’s defense industry, no firm conclusions as to its true nature was ever uncovered.
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