About this episode

The episode discusses a narrowly averted hostage crisis during the Carter administration involving the US Embassy in Pakistan.

A now forgotten incident about an attempt to have a second hostage crisis during the Carter administration, only narrowly averted by heroic of the embassy staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Bruce Carlson

Topics covered

• hostage crisis
• Carter administration
• embassy staff
• Middle East
• 1979 incident

Keywords

• hostage crisis
• Carter administration
• embassy
• Pakistan
• 1979

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Embassy

Places: Pakistan

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