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If it really works, I hope Rossi has excellent security and body armor.

If the technology is real, I think it's nearly impossible to suppress it.

First, information today is easy to distribute. He can give encrypted files to many of his friends, and put the encryption key into his will (or leave it with his lawyer, who has no encrypted data and doesn't know anyone who has.)

Second, the basic idea of his device had been recreated by scientists. The haggling is all about specific implementation that just happens to produce more power than the lab experiments. So even if no trace of his invention is left, we know in what direction to start digging, and within a year or two his device will be reinvented.^[1]

Third, this won't be necessary. There are now thousands of eCat units being worked on, and there are hundreds of workers who have full access to them (because they are building them.) The adversary will not be able to kill so many people and destroy so many pieces of machinery - and it only takes one to reveal the specific design that Rossi is protecting.

Furthermore, as soon as the first ten out of those 100 workers meet an untimely demise, it will be obvious to the rest of the team that the only way for them to survive is by disclosing the secret to the entire world, in tiniest details. Then they become worthless to assassins.

As I understand, the adversary's best plan to date is to ridicule the invention, to spread doubt, to make him a pariah. That worked with Fleischmann and Pons.

^[1] There was a SciFi story where a group of scientists is shown a movie of a test of an antigravity device. The inventor puts a backpack on, flies in the air for a while, but then something in his apparatus catches fire, he falls and dies. The group is tasked with reinventing the thing and is given full access to the remains of the apparatus and the lab and to the library of the inventor. They are confused by what they see, but eventually they do it - though they are concerned that their machine takes more power and is bigger than the backpack that was shown in the video. But once they demonstrate their device they are introduced to the "dead" inventor - and it turns out that the whole video was a fake, made only to convince the scientists that they can do it - and so they cast away the old physics and did it, motivated by the belief that the invention is possible.