# Collins and a US source tied some of the dead to underwater simulation and SDI-applicable work

> Tony Collins of Computer News said the three Marconi men all worked in a narrow field of underwater simulation, and a US source told the Sunday Times in…

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# Collins and a US source tied some of the dead to underwater simulation and SDI-applicable work

Tony Collins of Computer News said the three Marconi men all worked in a narrow field of underwater simulation, and a US source told the Sunday Times in 1988 that some of the dead worked on projects "applicable to star wars"; Marconi Space Systems and Easams held US-led missile-defence study contracts.

Suggestive0

## 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[A shared classified field: underwater warfare and SDI simulation](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGAVY3375S/a-shared-classified-field-underwater-warfare-and-sdi)

Supports1 for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
1.

Some of the dead worked near SDI-related business, but no shared programme is named.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?

## 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)Set by this evidence

**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 3

[Pentagon wants to investigate scientists mystery](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG697ASPC1/pentagon-wants-to-investigate-scientists-mystery)

NZPA-AP 1988

SRC

[The Times, 5 December 1986: SDI/NATO missile-defence study contracts to British firms (archive.org scan)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG79HPY4V1/the-times-5-december-1986-sdi-nato-missile-defence-study)

Times 1986

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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