U.S. Government Keeps Death Ray Under Wraps?

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The technical details of a “Death Ray” machine may be kept secret by a court order

A criminal case in Albany, New York may soon have a layer of secrecy as the trial of Glendon Scott Crawford, the inventor of a purported mobile X-ray weapon intended to harm religious minorities, begins to move forward.

The trial, scheduled for 29 April, has earned a great deal of notoriety as tech experts argue over whether such a device could be constructed. In an additional twist, prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office have asked U.S. District Court Judge Gary Shape to issue an order which would allow the sharing of details of the weapon, which has been referred to as a “death ray,” only between the parties, and which would otherwise keep these details secret.

According to HLS News Wire, in January, 49-year-old Crawford was indicted in the town of Providence on charges of attempting to produce and use a radiological dispersal device, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and distributing information relating to weapons of mass destruction.

iHLS – Israel Homeland Security

As the Daily Gazette reports, for the past two years prior Crawford had been offering his garage-built weapon to groups such as the Ku Klux Klan in order to target Muslims. Eventually, both a Jewish and Klan organization reported him to federal authorities. Using undercover agents, the FBI interacted with Crawford and mounted a case claiming that, at the least, the weapon could cause substantial injury.

According to the FBI, “Crawford was able to draw up a schematic and assemble parts to create a system,” and was “a former General Electric Co. industrial mechanic