Espionage
Retired Air Force general tried resigning from defense roles before vanishing
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"McCaslin flew alone to Washington DC to resign from Riverside Research. This defense contractor that apparently works on advanced technology projects for the Pentagon, the US intelligence community, the Air Force... he was trying to step away. It was reported McCasm was resigning because he said he quote could not keep up mentally with the conversation."
Newly released police records reveal that retired Major General William Neil McCaslin was attempting to resign from multiple high-level defense research advisory positions just days before his disappearance. McCaslin told associates he "could not keep up mentally with the conversation" at Riverside Research, a Pentagon contractor working on advanced technology projects, contradicting his wife's earlier public statements about his lack of active security clearances.
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