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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's a hot summer night on June 27, 1975, at a small house party in Paris, France.

25-year-old Elyche Ramirez Sanchez flirts with a young woman at the party.

Eilich is a long way from his home in Venezuela, and here in Paris he goes by the name

Carlos. As he and the young woman chat, another partygoer interrupts with troubling news.

Police have just arrived at the door, and they want to speak to Carlos.

Carlos tries to hide his concern. He's not sure what the police could want

to talk to him about, but there's plenty of possibilities, because for years, Carlos has been

working with a popular front for the liberation of Palestine, a revolutionary group dedicated

to ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent socialist Palestinian state.

Earlier this year,

Carlos and his fellow members tried to blow up two Israeli airliners at a Paris airport,

but the French haven't connected Carlos to the attack, and he hopes to keep it that way.

Carlos does his best to appear nonchalant as he walks up to the authorities. The officers ask him about his background and recent whereabouts,

but Carlos stonewalls them and then threatens to call his ambassador.

Failing to get any information out of him, the officers leave,

but it's not long before they're back again, and this time with another guest.

As the front door swings open, standing next to the officers is Michel, one of Carlos'

popular Front co-conspirators.

Michel was arrested a few days ago in connection to the front's failed airliner attacks.

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