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Roland Perry

Roland Perry

Australian author and historian

Oct 12, 2026

6:04
Yeah.
6:04
So what he did was he said, "Oh, I'm here.
6:06
I'm Lord Rothschild.
6:07
I'm coming up to see you Now how do I know that for sure? Because I interviewed Mark Oliphant, your greatest scientist after the death of Rutherford in 1937.
6:16
I interviewed him at length in 1994, and he said, "Oh, yes, Rothschild came in and he wanted to see what we were doing in one, uh, laboratory about nuclear weapons, and he wanted to see what we're doing with Radar Hill." He had a mighty brain.
6:28
He absorbed things like a blotter, right? Now, that's half the story.
6:33
You could say, "Okay, that's fanciful, and he might have been just interested." Then I interviewed in Moscow, uh, Vladimir Barkovsky, who was in the London embassy.

7 MINS LATER

speaker_3UNKNOWN
13:50
Yeah.
6:04
Yeah.
6:04
So what he did was, he said, "Oh, I'm here.
6:06
I'm Lord Rothschild.
6:07
I'm coming up to see you." Now how do I know that for sure? Because I interviewed Mark Oliphant, your greatest scientist after the death of Rutherford in 1937.
6:16
I interviewed him at length in 1994, and he said, "Oh, yes, Rothschild came in and he wanted to see what we were doing in one, uh, laboratory about nuclear weapons, and he wanted to see what we're doing with Radar Hill." He had a mighty brain.
6:28
He absorbed things like a blotter, right? Now, that's half the story.
6:33
You could say, "Okay, that's fanciful, and he might have been just interested." Then I interviewed in Moscow, uh, Vladimir Barkovsky, who was in the London embassy.

7 MINS LATER

speaker_3UNKNOWN
13:50
Yeah.
3:19
quoting the war leader there?
3:21
Oh, yes.
3:22
Oh, yes.
3:22
It's in his cabinet records.
3:25
A few more wouldn't hurt.
3:27
That's right.
3:27
He sort of understood it because it was put to him in that way that was digestible in three pages.
5:57
That is the most brutal, George

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