Giovanni Battista Judica Cordiglia has died. No, he had not intercepted rumors of cosmonauts dying in space before Gagarin

Andrea Ferrero on Mastodon reports the passing of one of the Italian protagonists of space conspiracy theory:
“The electronics technician Giovanni Battista Judica Cordiglia has died. Today many newspapers will say that together with his brother Achille he had intercepted the rumors of cosmonauts who died in space before Gagarin. It is not true”.

https://mastodon.uno/@(email protected)/112268577678233664

To find out more, I recommend this Cicap article on false spatial beliefs:

https://www.cicap.org/n/articolo.php?id=1801027

and the book
Lost cosmonauts
by Luca Boschini:

https://www.cicap.org/new/prodotto.php?id=3859