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As many as 11 scientists working on space and nuclear power research have now either died or mysteriously disappeared just since 2022.
And lawmakers are now demanding answers.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comr sending letters to federal agencies including the Department of War, Department of Energy, and NASA.
Meanwhile, FBI Director Cash Patel says if there are any signs of nefarious conduct, his team is ready to take action.
Per our conversations with the White House and the president, the FBI is going to be spearheading the effort collectively with our partners at the Department of Energy and the Department of War, um these missing and um uh killed scientists and former professional members of the Department of Energy um vary uh in wide range and we're working most importantly with our state and local partners who have the jurisdiction on each of these cases, whether they be a homicide or a missing person's case.
>> Former assistant FBI director Chris Wer joins me now.
Chris, what do you think?
Coincidence or something more sinister at play here?
>> Hey, good morning, Todd.
I I think it's a mixture of both.
I mean, this list keeps growing.
It started with General William McCassland and then Monica Raza who did indeed work together on rocket propulsion and and other and metal metal technology and some things that are very sensitive technologies uh for for this country and then it expanded.
I think it's a creation of the media, social media, and I think it's captured people's imagination.
What I will say is, you know, especially with General McCaslin and and Monica Raza, a scientist that worked at the prop uh propulsion lab, that they are targets of espionage, and that's just a fact.
They they work on technologies that are sensitive to this country that China, Russia, and other hostile foreign intelligence services would want to get their hands on or disrupt.
Now if you build out from there uh and and so that you know if anything nefarious is going on here it's not you know the our own government or spa you know people being abducted by aliens.
This is just modern-day espionage if there's anything nefarious happening at all.
Now there are other suspicious circumstances with some of the some of the other scientists.
One was a you know was the the MIT professor that was killed by the Brown University shooter.
You can take that one out.
Another one was a carjacking and burglary.
You can take that one out and the list gets a little bit shorter.
But having said that, the common denominator is that they were all working on technologies that are that are the targets of espionage.
And it is indeed the job of the FBI to stop that from happening to uh conduct counter intelligence work in this area and and work these cases.
And I'm I'm I'm surprised that they got started so late on this.
>> Interesting.
Uh, quickly I want to go back to the uh, MIT professor who was killed.
You are confident that that one can be removed from this list and that this list that includes him is a little bit more of a creation by the media as opposed to really a nice organized pile of the individuals who are no longer with us.
>> Yeah, I am confident.
I mean that look, you can never rule anything out, but that that clearly is that was a part of the Brown University mass shooting.
There was there was a prior relationship there.
There's another one uh where there there was a carjacking and a burglary at very early in the morning.
So, you know, some of them you can just take out completely, but others I, you know, I I'm just, you know, I'm when you when you understand what other countries are doing and the lengths that they go to try to get their hands on our sensitive technologies, especially rocket propulsion, metals, uh, nuclear research, and that sort of thing.
It's a daily, uh, it's something happens, the cat-and- mouse game that goes on day in and day out.
It's espionage activities directed at our scientists and we do the same going at other scientists in other countries.
>> Does call into question whether we're protecting those individuals enough.
I think not if they're dying.
Meanwhile, an Iranian national accused of trafficking weapons on behalf of the regime is due in court today after federal officials arrested her at LAX.
First Assistant US Attorney Bill Asaly writing on X quote Shamim Mafi 44 of Woodland Hills, California was arrested at LAX for trafficking arms on behalf of the government of Iran.
Mafi is an Iranian national who became a lawful permanent resident of the United States back in 2016.
How have so many people Chris with ties to the Iranian government, one been allowed just to live in our country and in this case been allowed to live in our country while working for the Iranian government?
Yeah, I mean we had four years of open borders, probably more than that under other administrations.
And you know, the Iranians have been doing this for a long, long time.
I've been personally associated with cases that where the Iranians were violating sanctions, operating in the United States, uh.
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