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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
World
Jim Manzon

Missing Scientists Deadline Passes With No FBI Answers, Leaving 13 Families and a Nation in the Dark

FBI NASA Pentagon Eric Burlison Energy Bethany Stevens Donald Trump James Comer Kash Patel Susan McCasland Wilkerson
At least 13 US scientists and personnel linked to nuclear, rocket, and aerospace research have died or vanished in recent years.

The 27 April congressional deadline for four US federal agencies to brief lawmakers on a string of dead and missing scientists has passed, leaving 13 families with no formal answers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Energy, or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Only the renamed Department of War (DoW), formerly the Department of Defense, has substantively replied. Its position is that 'there are no active national security investigations of any reported missing person who was a current or former clearance holder involved in special access programs.'

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