The Gas Man
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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It starts with a tip-off.
It’s the late 1980s and US Special Agent Dennis Bass is warned about a shipment of suspicious chemicals headed to a secret destination. So he follows the lead – and ends up stumbling into a global plot helping fuel a war. The main suspect? The Gas Man.
In the decades since, Special Agent Bass has been locked in an international game of cat and mouse with the man who supplied a dangerous regime with the chemicals to make weapons. Every time Bass thinks he’s got his hands on him… The Gas Man somehow manages to slip the net. And he’s still on the run today.
But after more than 30 years, could his past finally be catching up with The Gas Man?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Bashar here, and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 0:05.4 | It's five years since we made our first ever podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here. |
| 0:12.8 | Bashar, do you want to start? |
| 0:13.7 | That was the beginning of our weekly investigative show, the Slow Newscast. |
| 0:17.3 | And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then, what we care about |
| 0:22.0 | hasn't changed, because we still investigate injustices. I was personally very struck by the |
| 0:29.0 | strength of your reporting, with the evidence in your reporting. We tell gripping stories with a |
| 0:33.6 | human heart. It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story, filled with death, lies and witness protection programs. |
| 0:41.4 | But still, it's a love story. |
| 0:43.9 | Since those early days, we've won landmark legal battles. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello. |
| 0:48.3 | I thought you'd like to know we've got the judgment. |
| 0:50.8 | It's going to be published. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:54.0 | You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus InVit. it's going to be published. Oh my God. |
| 0:58.9 | You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus Investigates. |
| 1:03.0 | What I uncover is a global game of cat and mouse. |
| 1:05.0 | A catch-me-if-you-can. |
| 1:06.9 | And we've grown. |
| 1:10.7 | Hello, I'm Tominy and this is The Sense Maker from Tortus. On Tortus news, you can find |
| 1:12.3 | our daily and weekly shows that help make sense of the world. From Tortus, welcome to the news |
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