White House to Probe Reports of 10 Missing or Dead Scientists

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Published APR 16

White House to Probe Reports of 10 Missing or Dead Scientists

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Above: Karoline Leavitt speaks at the White House Press Briefing Room on April 8, 2026. Image credit: Celal Gunes/Anadolu/Getty Images

The Spin

Ten American scientists and military officials with top-secret clearances have died or vanished since 2024, and the White House isn't dismissing it. The concentration of cases in New Mexico — home to Los Alamos, Sandia and Kirtland AFB — combined with active geopolitical threats from Iran, Russia and China, makes this far too serious to wave away. When the U.S. press secretary says she'll "get you an answer," that's either the start of accountability or the start of a coverup.

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America's most dangerous scientific minds are being hunted — a nuclear fusion director assassinated, an astrophysicist shot on his porch, a JPL scientist vanished mid-hike and never found. ALeavitt's formerresponse FBIsuggests directorthe saidstart itof plainly:a scientists are being assassinated. FBI involvement has already been requestedcoverup, andbut the pressure for real answers isn't stoppinggoing to stop — because someone is systematically eliminating the people who safeguard America's most classified programs.