104. The Bill Buckley Story: Kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon with Fred Burton

This week Justin welcomes repeat guest Fred Burton. Fred is the former Deputy Chief of the Counter-Terrorism and Protective Intelligence Division for the US State Department's Diplomatic Security Service, and is currently the executive director of the Onyx Center for Protective Intelligence. He's also the author of four non-fiction books about counterterrorism and intelligence matters. Today, Fred discusses the murder of CIA Station Chief William F. Buckley in Hezbollah's War Against America. A CIA officer and Special Forces veteran, Bill was kidnapped and murdered in Lebanon in the 1980s in an event that changed the Central Intelligence Agency and US policy towards Lebanon forever.

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Fred's book, Beirut Rules, here on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Beirut-Rules-Station-Hezbollahs-Against/dp/1101987464

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