The day Cook saved the NS.

Thatcher, Margaret, 1925-2013; Espionage; Journalism; Censorship; Mass media; Periodicals; Intelligence service

Focuses on Robin Cook and how he prevented the government in England from suppressing an important intelligence revelation. Description of events in February 1987 that led to detectives raiding the offices of the "New Statesman" and BBC Scotland's headquarters, in search of information about a banned BBC program; How the banned program, "Secret Society," showed then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreeing to spend money on the first British spy satellite named Zircon; Speculation about how the public would get information about this if the program was banned by the BBC; Assertion that this periodical should publish a story about Zircon without being banned itself; Way that the magazine story was printed despite being given an injunction.