Overview
- The FBI, which confirmed Tuesday it is leading the review, is coordinating with the Energy and Defense Departments and state and local police to check for links across 11 cases.
- Agents are examining whether any connection involves classified access or foreign interference as they run case-by-case checks.
- Officials say they have found no evidence the incidents are connected to date, and NASA says it is cooperating and has seen no national security threat tied to its programs.
- The review covers a cluster in Los Angeles County involving JPL and Caltech affiliates as well as cases in other states that include the missing Air Force general William Neil McCasland, the MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro’s homicide, and noncriminal determinations such as Jason Thomas and Amy Eskridge.
- House Oversight Chair James Comer has launched a parallel inquiry and President Trump called the matter serious, a push that could prompt agency briefings and quicker public updates.