Karen Silkwood: Political murder?

[Richard Booth]

Very interesting theory Richard and entirely possible too. Likely even.

Very much speculative, I admit.

However, we know a few things for sure:

(1) Kerr-McGee could not account for 30-60 pounds of plutonium. The exact figure isn't know, but it's significant.
(2) NUMEC could not account for a similar volume of uranium. Which we now know was transferred to Israel via Mossad contacts that Jim Angleton was very close to.
(3) Karen Silkwood met her untimely demise just an hour before she was to supply material to the NY Times that would expose missing plutonium and falsification of x-rays
(4) Karen Silkwood was murdered in a way that was sophisticated and professional

There is much more to the Silkwood story, enough that shows a level of surveillance, interference, and obfuscation that could only have been accomplished by powerful people with connections.

Something big is behind Karen Silkwood's murder. I refuse to believe that some corporate security schmuck (who relished in trading gossip about Silkwood's sex life, showing how low his intellect really was) arranged her murder. It was much bigger than that.

For anyone interested I strongly suggest 'The Killing of Karen Silkwood' -- great book.

This '77 Rolling Stone piece is also very good on the subject. Incidentally, this 1977 RS piece mentions the NUMEC missing uranium and links that to the CIA, then suggests that Kerr-McGee being a company with longstanding Defense/Intel ties would not necessarily be against a similar arrangement. Today, we have more details on the NUMEC transfer thanks to Morley's good account and know that it wasn't 'the CIA' in general, but more specifically it was Angleton and Mossad. I'll forgive Rolling Stone, of course, they didn't know this at the time but history has proven they were on the right track!

Rolling Stone piece:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...ath-52287/

--Richard