How the CIA captured Carlos the Jackal | SpyCast
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Before he became one of the world's most notorious terrorists in the 1970s and '80s, inspiring movies, books, and future terrorists, Carlos the Jackal was born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez to a privileged family in Venezuela. Over time, his crimes grew bolder, from an attempted assassination to abductions, murder, hijackings, and bombings. Some state leaders tolerated him out of fear he would target their countries, yet his alliances with militants and dictators soured as the years passed. In his new book, The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist, journalist Joby Warrick profiles the mercenary terrorist and details how American and French intelligence took him down.
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How the CIA captured Carlos the Jackal | SpyCast
International Spy Museum
75,920 views
Before he became one of the world's most notorious terrorists in the 1970s and '80s, inspiring movies, books, and future terrorists, Carlos the Jackal was born Ilich Ramírez Sánchez to a privileged family in Venezuela. Over time, his crimes grew bolder, from an attempted assassination to abductions, murder, hijackings, and bombings. Some state leaders tolerated him out of fear he would target their countries, yet his alliances with militants and dictators soured as the years passed. In his new book, The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World's First Super-Terrorist, journalist Joby Warrick profiles the mercenary terrorist and details how American and French intelligence took him down.
Subscribe to Sasha's Substack, HUMINT, to get more intelligence stories: https://sashaingber.substack.com/ and @sasha-ingber
For more information about the International Spy Museum, visit: https://www.spymuseum.org/
If you have feedback or want to hear about a particular topic, you can reach us by email at spycast@spymuseum.org.
The International Spy Museum® is an independent nonprofit organization. Generous support from viewers like you fuel our nonprofit mission and make our collection, exhibits, and educational programs like this possible. DONATE here: https://bit.ly/3NUqU9C
This show is brought to you from Goat Rodeo, N2K Networks, and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. This episode was produced by Flora Warshaw and the team at Goat Rodeo. At the International Spy Museum, Mike Mincey and Memphis Vaughan III are our video editors. Nastya Bykova is our graphic designer. Joshua Troemel runs our SPY social media. Amanda Ohlke is our Director of Adult Education and Mira Cohen is the Vice President of Programs.
At the beginning of WW2, the OSS recruited an young American woman, trained her and sent her to Spain.
She eventually wrote several books:- "The Spy wore red", "The Spy went dancing", and a couple of other titles.
In one of the last books, she documents her experiences of crossing paths with a charming, but ruthless, Carlos in the late 1960s, early '70s.
She also talks about how one of her WW2 contacts in Spain, "Top Hat", was assassinated in London, in the mid 1960s by the Russians, using a poisoned pellet, while walking through Londons busy streets.