House Oversight Asks FBI for Briefing on Missing Scientists

The House Oversight Committee has requested a staff-level briefing with the FBI over the recent mysterious deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists or government employees with connections to U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology. The committee sent letters to FBI Director Kash Patel, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, War Secretary Pete Hegseth, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on April 20, announcing a probe into the reported disappearances and deaths of U.S. scientists. “These reports allege that at least ten individuals who ‘had a connection to U.S. nuclear secrets or rocket technology,’ have ‘died or mysteriously vanished in recent years.’ If the reports are accurate, these deaths and disappearances may represent a grave threat to U.S. national security and to U.S. personnel with access to scientific secrets,” House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-K.Y.) and House Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Chair Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) wrote in a statement....