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🗓️ 15 March 2025
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0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. |
0:09.0 | I welcome my colleague Brandon Wyckert. |
0:13.0 | His book, The Shadow War, Iran's quest for supremacy, takes us to November, |
0:19.0 | 1978. |
0:25.4 | The ambassador to Iran is named William Sullivan. |
0:26.9 | He's a veteran ambassador. |
0:32.7 | He also has entangled himself through his career with black operations. |
0:43.4 | He knows and he understands how the U.S. can use its foreign policy both above board and below board to achieve ends for the people of the land. |
0:44.6 | He's in Iran. |
0:48.5 | He writes a memo called Thinking the Unthinkable. |
0:55.0 | That memo eventually comes to the attention of the President of the United States, James Carter, Jimmy Carter. I welcome Brandon to take us to that moment, thinking the unthinkable, why the ambassador |
1:02.0 | wrote it, and what Mr. Carter made of it the first time and then the second time. |
1:07.0 | Brendan, congratulations, good evening. |
1:10.0 | This is a detail that very much illustrates how the U.S. has been deeply involved in Iran's |
1:17.6 | faith, at least since the middle of the 20th century, if not before. |
1:22.6 | What was in that memo? |
1:24.6 | What did Mr. Carter think? |
1:26.6 | What happened? Good evening to you good evening john and |
1:29.5 | thank you for having me uh yeah william sullivan is one of those forgotten characters uh in the |
1:35.4 | the the sordid saga that was the iranian revolution basically sullivan was looking around |
1:41.9 | and he was watching the shah of Iran, who was old at that point. |
1:46.4 | He was sickly. |
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