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International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. 28: 290 318. 2015 During the 1980 more than two dozen computer scientists, engineers, software designers, and highly-skilled technicians representing the cream of Great Britain’s crop of missile defence experts died in mysterious and often gruesome ways. Coincidence might account for the timing and circumstances of these deaths, except for one caveat: Virtually all of the victims participated in the European counterpart to US. President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Henry Champ, NBC News correspondent in London, put it this way: “In the world of espionage. there is a saying: Once is an accident, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action. This maxim attests beyond a reasonable doubt that the Q “Star Wars" murders were not merely a chain of isolated episodes. But these serial deaths have garnered almost no public attention throughout the years. The British victims died from a numbing variety of causes: car “accidents," asphyxiation/carbon monoxide poisoning, suffocation, drowning,

Dr. Marian K. Leighton has been working in the United Slater Intelligence Community since 1980, ﬁrst as a Soviet analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, and again with the CIA as an independent contractor working ﬁrst in the Counterterrorism Centre and later in the Dee/ossification Centre. A graduate of Barnard College, New York City, with (1 RA. in Russian Studies. she received her M.A. from the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, New York City, and her PILD. in International Relations, also from Columbia. Dr. [nigh/on is the author ofThe Soviet Threat to NATO‘s this is not the complete c.v. of this woman.- she is author of a number of books one of which is SOVIET PROPAGANDA  AS A FOREIGN POLICY TOOL (LANHAM. MD: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF AMERICA, 1901)