{"id":23618,"date":"2026-04-24T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/heres-what-nobodys-telling-you-about-the-missing-scientists-cases\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T05:30:52","slug":"heres-what-nobodys-telling-you-about-the-missing-scientists-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/24\/heres-what-nobodys-telling-you-about-the-missing-scientists-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s What Nobody\u2019s Telling You About The \u2018Missing Scientists\u2019 Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Beginning in the early 1960s, one after another, former Nazi scientists and engineers were targeted for assassination in an Israeli intelligence operation called \u201cOperation Damocles.\u201d The scientists had taken new jobs developing rockets for Egypt, and it was very clear that Mossad \u2014 Israel\u2019s intelligence agency \u2014 didn\u2019t want that program to continue. So Mossad agents sent mail bombs, organized drive-by shootings, and in one case, managed to make a prominent arms dealer named Heinz Krug disappear completely. As the New York Times reported<\/a> at the time, \u201cThe expert, Dr. Krug, who once held a top post with a Stuttgart research institute for jet propulsion physics, disappeared in Munich on Tuesday. \u2026 He was last seen leaving his Munich office for an appointment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Operation Damocles was ultimately a successful program. It terrified Nazi scientists, and it certainly made the idea of working for Egypt much less appealing. It was also good practice for Mossad, which went on to conduct many more assassinations of foreign scientists \u2014 most recently in Iran. Just a few years ago, towards the end of Trump\u2019s first term, the Mossad managed to kill Iran\u2019s nuclear scientist using a remote-controlled, AI-enabled machine gun that was hidden in the back of a pickup truck that was parked on the side of the freeway.<\/p>\n

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Israeli spies programmed the AI to compensate for the machine gun\u2019s movement in the back of the pickup truck, as well as the input delay from the remote operation of the weapon. So when the scientist drove by, all the Mossad agent had to do was press the button to shoot him. And at the time, Iran had no idea what happened. They assumed that snipers had been hiding near the freeway. Initial media reports suggested that a gun battle had taken place. And for their part, the Mossad contributed to this confusion by blowing up the pickup truck once the target was dead.<\/p>\n

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We sometimes hear about these kinds of operations when they\u2019re conducted by our own intelligence services, or intelligence agencies that work with the CIA (like the Mossad). And that makes sense \u2014 it\u2019s effective propaganda that sounds like you\u2019re reading a spy thriller. And people \u201con our side\u201d like to brag about successful operations. At the same time, it\u2019s very rare to hear about similar operations that are conducted by foreign governments, within our borders. And there\u2019s only two possible reasons for that: Either foreign governments aren\u2019t conducting any assassination operations on U.S. soil, or they\u2019re conducting those operations without being detected \u2014 or at least, without our government telling us about them.<\/p>\n

Especially with the war in Iran underway, it\u2019s not hard to wonder whether, indeed, American researchers are being targeted, without the government telling us. And in recent days, as you\u2019ve probably heard, there\u2019s a lot of concern about this possibility. It\u2019s gone mainstream, and now the White House is involved. Watch:<\/p>\n