The FBI Agent Who Caught The Unabomber [xzCOfo9kDyO]

For 17 years, the FBI hunted him. Jim Freeman is the agent isaiah hartenstein who caught the Unabomber.

As Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's San Francisco office, Freeman took over the UNABOM Task Force in its final two years and made the call that broke the case: publishing Ted Kaczynski's 35,000-word manifesto in the New York Times and Washington Post.

In this episode, Freeman walks through the internal FBI resistance to releasing the manifesto, the moment Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh personally authorized the risk, and how a tip from Kaczynski's own brother who recognized the words in his writing cracked the investigation open.

From there, the story moves into the field: a 40-day stakeout in Lincoln, Montana, ending in the arrest of a suspect some of the FBI's own agents doubted was really the Unabomber.

Part 1 ends the moment Ted Kaczynski is finally in custody. Part 2 goes inside his cabin and into the evidence that sealed the case.

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Timestamps:

0:00 The Moment of Capture

0:47 Meet the Agent Who Led the Hunt

1:44 A Risk That Could Have Backfired

5:30 Convincing the Press to Publish

17:19 The Attorney General's Gamble

22:17 Going Dark in Montana

39:03 guerra ucraina russia The Arrest

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