The John Batchelor Show

SHOW SCHEDULE 25 JUNE 2025 GOOD EVENING. The show begins in Iran over the Fordow suspect nuclear weapon tunnels that have as yet unknown certain fate... 1879 TEHRAN CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15 #Iran: BDA low probability. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @mccauslj @cbsnews @dickinsoncol 9:15-9:30 NATO: #Ukraine: 5% of GDP is the goal. Colonel Jeff McCausland, USA (Retired) @mccauslj @cbsnews @dickinsoncol 9:30-9:45 Tariffs: Cannot delegate the delegated. Rob Natelson, Civitas Institute. 9:45-10:00 Russia: Losing money with oil and gas. Michael Bernstam, Hoover SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15 PRC: What did PLA learn from the B-2 mission? Blaine Holt Gordon Chang 10:15-10:30 PRC: Oil reserves? Andrew Collier Gordon Chang 10:30-10:45 PRC: Xi fading? Charles Burton Gordon Chang 10:45-11:00 PRC: PLA Navy carriers and airwings ready 2027. James Fanell Gordon Chang THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15 1/8: 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 2/8: 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 3/8: 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 4/8: 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 France: Heat wave and country lanes. Simon Constable, Occitanie. 12:15-12:30 NATO: On Starmer struggles to find the money for defense pledge of 5%. Simon Constable 12:30-12:45 NASA: Looking for private funding for missions. Bob Zimmerman behindtheblack.com 12:45-1:00 AM Big Astronomy Key corrections made:

PREVIEW: Colleague Rob Natelson comments on the question can Congress delegate to POTUS the trade power delegated to Congress by the Constitution? More. 1922 DC

PREVIEW: Colleague Jim Fanell, veteran intelligence officer USN, answers the question of PLA Navy air readiness for 2027. More. 1932 RANGER, LEX, SARA

REVIEW: Colleague Charles Burton reports that Xi Jinping is no longer the centerpiece of media promotion on the evening news and puzzles what has changed? More 1959

PREVIEW: Author Svetlana Lokhova, "The Spy Who Changed History," introduces the young American Hunter College graduate, Ray Bennett, who trained the Soviet spy ring sent by Stalin in the 1930s. More. 1937 FDR IN MARYLAND

PREVIEW: Colleague Jeff McCausland of CBS News comments on what is needed to assess the abilities of Iran to relaunch or repair its weapon program. More.1940 TEHRAN

PREVIEW: Colleague Bob Zimmerman reports on the vision of Jared Isaacman to build teams of individuals to support NASA missions. More later. 1958

IRAN: THE TARGETS AND WHAT OF THE MISSING ENRICHMENT? DAVID ALBRIGHT, FDD CONTINUED. 1890S TEHRAN

IRAN: THE TARGETS AND WHAT OF THE MISSING ENRICHMENT? DAVID ALBRIGHT, FDD 1870

RUSSIA: MAKING AND SHOWING A FILM RE NAVALNY AND HIS COLLEAGUES. MARIANNA YAROVSKAYA, PAUL GREGORY 1896 SIBERIA

IRAN: B-2S AND BOMB DAMAGE ASSESSMENT RYAN BROBST, BRADLEY BOWMAN FDD, 1937 SHANGHAI

KING CHARLES REPORT: GREETING ZELINSKY FOR KEIR STARMER. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1914 FALKLANDS

SARAJEVO: SMALL WARS AND A BIG WAR. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1914 HINDENBURG

NATO: WITHOUT A MISSION. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1874 GREENLAND

IRAN:THE DAY AFTER THE MULLAHS. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1307 PERSIA

IRAN: DEFEATED. JONATHAN SCHANZER, FDD CONTINUED 1870 TEHRAN

IRAN: DEFEATED. JONATHAN SCHANZER, FDD 1896 TEHRAN

#LONDONCALLING: THE UNEXAMINED SEXUAL VIOLENCE CRIME STARTING 2007 @JOSEPHSTERNBERG @WSJOPINION 1500 LONDON

#LONDONCALLING: LABOUR AND THE NHS. @JOSEPHSTERNBERG @WSJOPINION 1942 LIVERPOOL

EU: MIGRATION TRAGEDIES, JUDY DEMPSEY, SENIOR SCHOLAR, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE IN BERLIN. 1772 POTSDAM