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The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
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SHOW SCHEDULE
6-30-25
GOOD EVENING. The show begins in Iran..
1852 TEHRAN.
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 Iran: IAEA confirms damage but no conclusion. Bill Roggio, FDD. 9:15-9:30 Iran: Remains regional power. Bill Roggio, FDD 9:30-9:45 Ukraine: Low on air defense. John Hardie, Bill Roggio, FDD 9:45-10:00 NATO: Successes. John Hardie FDD
SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 Taiwan: Assassination plot by wolf warriors. Steve Yates, Heritage. @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 10:15-10:30 SpaceX: Costs of fails unknown. Douglas Messier, David Livingston 10:30-10:45 Trade: No doom. Just incorrect gloom. Alan Tonelson, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill 10:45-11:00 Trade: No doom. Just incorrect gloom. Alan Tonelson, @gordongchang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill continued
THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 5/8: The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his journey from Moscow to enroll at a top American university. He was concealed in a group of 65 Soviet students heading to prestigious academic institutions. But he was after far more than an excellent education.
Recognizing Russia was 100 years behind the encircling capitalist powers, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had sent Shumovsky on a mission to acquire America's vital secrets to help close the USSR's yawning technology gap. The road to victory began in the classrooms and laboratories of MIT – Shumovsky's destination soon became the unwitting finishing school for elite Russian spies. The USSR first transformed itself into a military powerhouse able to confront and defeat Nazi Germany. Then in an extraordinary feat that astonished the West, in 1947 American ingenuity and innovation exfiltrated by Shumovsky made it possible to build and unveil the most advanced strategic bomber in the world.
Following his lead, other MIT-trained Soviet spies helped acquire the secrets of the Manhattan Project. By 1949, Stalin's fleet of TU-4s, now equipped with atomic bombs could devastate the US on his command. Appropriately codenamed BLÉRIOT, Shumovsky was an aviation spy. Shumovsky's espionage was so successful that the USSR acquired every US aviation secret from his network of agents in factories and at top secret military research institutes.
In this thrilling history, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a journey through Stalin's most audacious intelligence operation. She pieces together every aspect of Shumovsky's life and character using information derived from American and Russian archives, exposing how even Shirley Temple and Franklin D. Roosevelt unwittingly advanced his schemes.
11:15-11:30 6/8: The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 11:30-11:45 7/8: The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 11:45-12:00 8/8: The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets by Svetlana Lokhova (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15 Iran: Arrests, executions, burial. Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio, FDD 12:15-12:30 Gaza: Egypt and Jordan to supervise. Ahmad Sharawi, Bill Roggio, FDD 12:30-12:45 #NewWorldReport: Chile votes. Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #newworldreporthumire, Alejandro Pena, Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights. 12:45-1:00 AM #NewWorldReport: China in the Americas. Chile votes. Joseph Humire @jmhumire @securefreesoc. Ernesto Araujo, former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #newworldreporthumire, Alejandro Pena, Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights. Continued
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. This is John Batchelor. The show begins tonight in Iran, conversation with Bill Raggio, the damage to the suspect nuclear weapons program. It is confirmed damaged. However, voices are raised that there is no conclusion that Iran, if it wills, can resume the pursuit of enriched uranium for a bomb within weeks or months, depending upon the informant. |
| 0:32.5 | The IA, the nuclear watchdog agency at the UN, says the program is in no way discouraged from re-igniting. |
| 0:42.0 | It was not a promising report. |
| 0:44.9 | Nonetheless, Iran is also reacting in ways that are more recognizable. |
| 0:51.4 | A thousand arrests, of course, executions. All of this is following the defeat of the |
| 0:58.7 | Iranian ability to defend itself against either the Israeli Air Force or the U.S. Air Force when it struck. |
| 1:08.1 | Bill Rajo, however, cautions that Iran remains a regional power to project terror and authority and intimidation to its neighbors across the region, including and not exclusively limited to the Stans and Turkey. |
| 1:27.4 | Then a conversation with John Hardy of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy about Ukraine. |
| 1:34.0 | I learned that of the seven Russian missiles launched most recently, Iskanders. |
| 1:39.7 | Only one was intercepted. |
| 1:41.3 | Why? |
| 1:42.9 | The Ukrainians have the Patriot Air Defense System, but |
| 1:47.1 | John says they're low on rockets to respond to the incoming Iskander missile. |
| 1:56.2 | Low on ammo. John does praise the success at the NATO meeting at the Hague, raising the targets |
| 2:05.0 | for percentage of GDP by such and such a date. I mentioned to you that 5% or 3.5% of the EU GDP would |
| 2:14.8 | be 3.5% or 5% of $20 trillion in 2025. |
| 2:21.1 | It's a consequential amount of money to put into defense every year. |
| 2:26.3 | Taiwan, part of the conversation Steve Yates joins from the Heritage Foundation, |
| 2:32.1 | a revelation from Czech intelligence that there was an assassination |
| 2:35.3 | plot masked as a car crash collision from the elected but not yet serving Vice President of Taiwan |
| 2:43.6 | who visited last year at the end of last year. |
| 2:47.9 | Sloppy and intercepted by signals intelligence, we can presume, because nothing actually happened. |
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