# Fewer than a third of the people named were GEC employees

> Only 8 of the 27 people named on the lists worked for GEC (Marconi or Easams) when they died; the rest worked for Plessey, British Aerospace, ICL…

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# Fewer than a third of the people named were GEC employees

Only 8 of the 27 people named on the lists worked for GEC (Marconi or Easams) when they died; the rest worked for Plessey, British Aerospace, ICL, British Telecom, the AEA, the MoD, universities and other bodies, or were not in the defence industry at all.

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## What it means

Key question[Who is on the list of "Marconi scientists", and how was the list put together?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9R1ZCZKX/who-is-on-the-list-of-marconi-scientists-and-how-was-the)

No answer ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[A defined group of Marconi defence scientists](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/answers/ANS0DGGB3ER4RB9/a-defined-group-of-marconi-defence-scientists)

Counts againstnone for, 1 against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

What it implies
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The list is not a defined group of Marconi defence scientists.For the key question: Who is on the list of "Marconi scientists", and how was the list put together?

## Next steps 1

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Check Collins's Open Verdict against the case table

Adds evidenceGood odds~8 h

[On: Who is on the list of "Marconi scientists", and how was the list put together?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/marconi-scientists/questions/QST0DGG9R1ZCZKX/who-is-on-the-list-of-marconi-scientists-and-how-was-the)

**15** score

Details

Get a copy of Tony Collins, Open Verdict (1990), and check each of the 15 'unverified' verdicts in the case table against it.

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

## Sources 3

[25 Marconi Scientists, 1982–88 (Project Camelot list, after Mark J. Harper's "Dead Scientists and Microbiologists" master list)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DGG6YEENQCQ/25-marconi-scientists-198288-project-camelot-list-after-mark)

Harper 2005

SRC

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

Eliason 1988

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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