# Official answers put the dead on separate, mostly unclassified work

> The MoD told Parliament that Sharif had no access above RESTRICTED, that Pugh never worked for it and that Cosmos was a private Marconi venture, and said…

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# Official answers put the dead on separate, mostly unclassified work

The MoD told Parliament that Sharif had no access above RESTRICTED, that Pugh never worked for it and that Cosmos was a private Marconi venture, and said Peapell's last project used open literature; Marconi said its three dead staff worked on separate projects at separate sites for separate companies.

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## What it means

Key question[Were the people who died working on the same classified projects, such as Sting Ray, Tigerfish or the Strategic Defense Initiative?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9NEW2HG6/were-the-people-who-died-working-on-the-same-classified)

2 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[No shared secret project](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGAVRCX50P/no-shared-secret-project)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
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There is no documented shared classified programme among the dead.For the key question: Were the people who died working on the same classified projects, such as Sting Ray, Tigerfish or the Strategic Defense Initiative?

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The proposed motive (a common secret project) has no documented basis.For: Did any of the deaths share a common cause, such as killings by an intelligence service?

## Next steps 1

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Read Collins, Open Verdict (1990)

Adds evidenceFair odds~8 h

[On: Were the people who died working on the same classified projects, such as Sting Ray, Tigerfish or the Strategic Defense Initiative?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9NEW2HG6/were-the-people-who-died-working-on-the-same-classified)

**9** score

Details

Get a copy of the only book-length study (Sphere, ISBN 0-7474-0146-2) and extract every programme and employer it gives for each death, with its sources. It would show whether a shared programme is documented anywhere.

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 5

[Coincidence or conspiracy?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG68J10XD6/coincidence-or-conspiracy)

Eliason 1988

SRC

[Marconi (Cosmos computer project): written answer, House of Commons, 30 March 1987 (HC Deb vol 113 c383W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG59SMXSAK/marconi-cosmos-computer-project-written-answer-house-of)

Commons 1987

SRC

[Mr. Richard Pugh: written answer, House of Commons, 19 April 1988 (HC Deb vol 131 c426W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG5MNGM3FW/mr-richard-pugh-written-answer-house-of-commons-19-april)

Commons 1988

SRC

[Mr. Sharif: written answer, House of Commons, 31 March 1987 (HC Deb vol 113 c455W)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG5A4NEZ08/mr-sharif-written-answer-house-of-commons-31-march-1987-hc)

Commons 1987

SRC

[Their Firm Linked to 'Star Wars': British Scientists' Deaths: Suicides or Conspiracy?](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG6K49BE92/their-firm-linked-to-star-wars-british-scientists-deaths)

Marshall 1987

SRC

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