Fred Burton Interviewed by Coach Bill Hart - Running Towards Danger

What causes a man or woman to run towards danger? Bill Buckley was that kinda guy, serving as a young man in The Korean War and in Vietnam as a Green Beret. When the U.S. Embassy in Beirut was blown up by Hezbollah in 1983, Bill volunteered to go to Lebanon to stand up CIA intelligence operations. Bill was “all in.”

In this episode we meet Fred Burton, Chief Security Officer for Stratfor Worldview, an organization specializing in national and international security.  As a counterterrorism agent with the US State Department, Fred was tasked with the rescue of CIA station chief Bill Buckley, who had been kidnapped in Beirut by Hezbollah.