He’s the unsung hero of American rocketry. Founder of NASA’s JPL and Aerojet Corporation. But Jack Parsons’ genius has a dark side. Did his unusual beliefs and top-secret science play a role in his violent end? Deadly Ingelligence V: Jack Parsons
June 17th 1952: Pasadena, California, is rocked by a massive explosion. A makeshift laboratory lies in ruins, and Jack Parsons, a legend of American science, is mortally wounded. Jack Parsons dies from his injuries at just 37 years of age. ibid.
‘He was an eccesntri who bizarrely had had this strange private life involving magic and the occult.’ ibid. comment
And attends nightly meetings of an occult society called Ordo Templi Orientis. ibid.
‘Is it possible that Jack Parsons was murdered? Very possible.’ ibid. comment
A brilliant engineer dreams of conquering space with the biggest gun ever built. But to bring his super-gun to life he must make a deal with the devil. And when his work becomes a global threat, his ambition may lead to a deadly downfall. Deadly Intelligence VI: Gerald Bull
1990: World-renowned ballistic scientist, Dr Gerald Bull, returns home to his apartment in Brussels, Belgium … ‘Somebody stepped up behind him and fired a number of shots.’ ibid.
He finds support in an unlikely corner of the world: Iraq. ibid.
Bull’s obsession is too great to be stopped. ibid.
Israel suspects what he is trying to do. ibid.
Two brilliant scientists: both travelled the globe to pursue a scientific dream. Neither would live to return home. A young American engineer is found dead in Singapore. His family suspects an international cover-up. Deadly Intelligence VII: Shane Todd & Yahya El Mashad
Decades earlier, an evil dictator’s big for nuclear domination sends a brilliant physicist on a fatal journey from Baghdad to Paris. ibid.
Singapore, 2012: 31-year-old American electrical engineer Dr Shane Todd has hanged himself. His family believes otherwise. ibid.
Strict American export controls are in place to keep military GAN technology out of the hands of foreign powers. ibid.
IME and the Chinese company deny any attempt to skirt export laws … By 2012, Shane has resigned from IME. And is preparing to return to the United States. ibid.
‘The suicide notes did not match up at all with his normal writing … I’m 100% sure Dr Todd did not write these suicide notes.’ ibid. Dr Camp
Paris June 14th 1980: ‘The man was bludgeoned to death’: the victim is an Egyptian scientist, Yahya El Mashad. Cash in his wallet is untouched. The only possible clue to the killer, lipstick left on a bath towel. But the case takes on a new dimention when police France discover that el-Mashat is an alite nuclear sicentists who works for ruthless dictator, and future American nemisis, Saddam Hussein. ibid.
Nikola Tesla is one of the greatest scientific minds of all time. Pioneer of alternating current, remote control, and wireless power. But the circumstances of his death are highly suspicious. Was Nikola Tesla murdered in a conspiracy to steal his death-ray plans? Or could he have been assassinated to stop enemy powers obtaining his devastating weapon? Deadly Intelligence VII: Nikola Tesla
In 1934, after a lifetime of scientific discovery, Serbian-American Nikola Tesla announces his invention of a revolutionary particle-beam weapon, the death-ray. ibid.
Nikola Tesla is found dead in his Manhataan hotel room. The timing of his death is suspicious, and so is the fact that his hotel safe is ransacked and personal papers taken. ibid.
The mysterious group was led by Tesla’s one nephew, Sava Kosanovic, who was a Yugoslav diplomat and not well-liked by his uncle. Kosanovich is named in the FBI files as a possible communist. ibid.
Top of the list Nazi Germany. Another possible culprit, Tesla’s home country, America. ibid.