RIP Roger Cook Report how Murdoch's lies killed UK's most popular current affairs show BCfm Sep 2012
Roger Cook Sep12 Murdoch NotW lies kill The Cook Report, UK's most popular current affairs show Investigative journalist and author of 'Dangerous Ground' Roger Cook describes how Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World lied about his integrity and got him taken off the air by ITV in 2000. https://www.radio4all.net/program/63107 Summary: http://bcfm.org.uk/2012/09/21/17/friday-drivetime-89/21788 Roger describes some of his investigations: the penetration of airport security and hijacking of airliners in the United States before the 9/11 attacks; South Yorkshire police misconduct and the Hillsborough disaster cover-up; availability of weapons grade plutonium & nuclear weapons on the Russian black market; satanic abuse circle around 'The Sorcerers' Apprentice' shop in Yorkshire run by Chris Bray; News International, an organised criminal gang conducting burglaries and not just hacking voicemails but somehow tapping the phones of their legal opponents. How storage company Iron Mountain managed to destroy the entire film archive of The Cook Report. Appeal for people to put recordings they have of The Cook Report onto YouTube & other web video services as part of the fight against organised crime. What's your thoughts in hindsight about 9/11 and the repercussions from it the war on terror I mean is it possible do you think that somehow this was allowed to happen because it was expedient there were lots of warnings I mean there are others we had a warning from a man from the Federal Aviation Authority called bog gen Djokovic who had warned that you could get through almost any airport security and he had actually done it and the authorities blocked all his reports and when he was still doing these allegedly out of the blugh inspections on various airports he discovered that all been told by the authorities and when he kept pushing he was demoted and made head of paperclips the authorities didn't want to know they really didn't want to know expediency I don't know one of the programs that you did towards the end Roger was around the idea of Russian and Soviet soldiers that hadn't been paid for a lot of time the problem was that they were actually still on nuclear bases guarding nuclear weapons so can you tell us about that program because there was some pretty scary revelations weren't there well it wasn't just the soldiers it was the scientists who before perestroika had been at the top of the tree well-paid and afterwards they weren't paid at all so to keep their families alive you can understand why they did it although it was appalling they were stealing nuclear material and seniya didn't the black-market via the Russian mafia who really are tough as one of the KGB people or xkg people we spoke to said they make the Sicilian Mafia look like enid blyton anyway we with the help of a Russian journalist who ended up having a nervous breakdown and turning into an alcoholic during the process of making this program we made contact with members of the mafia and went round to this extraordinary rundown maisonette in the back streets of moscow where we were offered first of all a sample and it turned out to be weapons-grade plutonium because we had it tested by minute on the Russian equivalent of the Atomic Energy Authority and the guy went gray as he tested this stuff and said it really is the real stuff we had a very proper English translator who started to blush and I said what's this men saying and he said you've been handling this stuff and it's not properly packaged if I were you when I went back home I'd go and have yourself tested because your balls will probably glow in the dark
Roger Cook Sep12 Murdoch NotW lies kill The Cook Report, UK's most popular current affairs show Investigative journalist and author of 'Dangerous Ground' Roger Cook describes how Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World lied about his integrity and got him taken off the air by ITV in 2000. https://www.radio4all.net/program/63107 Summary: http://bcfm.org.uk/2012/09/21/17/friday-drivetime-89/21788 Roger describes some of his investigations: the penetration of airport security and hijacking of airliners in the United States before the 9/11 attacks; South Yorkshire police misconduct and the Hillsborough disaster cover-up; availability of weapons grade plutonium & nuclear weapons on the Russian black market; satanic abuse circle around 'The Sorcerers' Apprentice' shop in Yorkshire run by Chris Bray; News International, an organised criminal gang conducting burglaries and not just hacking voicemails but somehow tapping the phones of their legal opponents. How storage company Iron Mountain managed to destroy the entire film archive of The Cook Report. Appeal for people to put recordings they have of The Cook Report onto YouTube & other web video services as part of the fight against organised crime. What's your thoughts in hindsight about 9/11 and the repercussions from it the war on terror I mean is it possible do you think that somehow this was allowed to happen because it was expedient there were lots of warnings I mean there are others we had a warning from a man from the Federal Aviation Authority called bog gen Djokovic who had warned that you could get through almost any airport security and he had actually done it and the authorities blocked all his reports and when he was still doing these allegedly out of the blugh inspections on various airports he discovered that all been told by the authorities and when he kept pushing he was demoted and made head of paperclips the authorities didn't want to know they really didn't want to know expediency I don't know one of the programs that you did towards the end Roger was around the idea of Russian and Soviet soldiers that hadn't been paid for a lot of time the problem was that they were actually still on nuclear bases guarding nuclear weapons so can you tell us about that program because there was some pretty scary revelations weren't there well it wasn't just the soldiers it was the scientists who before perestroika had been at the top of the tree well-paid and afterwards they weren't paid at all so to keep their families alive you can understand why they did it although it was appalling they were stealing nuclear material and seniya didn't the black-market via the Russian mafia who really are tough as one of the KGB people or xkg people we spoke to said they make the Sicilian Mafia look like enid blyton anyway we with the help of a Russian journalist who ended up having a nervous breakdown and turning into an alcoholic during the process of making this program we made contact with members of the mafia and went round to this extraordinary rundown maisonette in the back streets of moscow where we were offered first of all a sample and it turned out to be weapons-grade plutonium because we had it tested by minute on the Russian equivalent of the Atomic Energy Authority and the guy went gray as he tested this stuff and said it really is the real stuff we had a very proper English translator who started to blush and I said what's this men saying and he said you've been handling this stuff and it's not properly packaged if I were you when I went back home I'd go and have yourself tested because your balls will probably glow in the dark