GRP 174-Big results Require Big Ambitions-A Conversation with HRT Operator Greg Shaffer
Global Recon
John Hendricks
4.8 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Greg Shaffer, an author and retired FBI agent is joining me for this week's podcast. Shaffer spent ten years in the Coast Guard and twenty years at the FBI, working in various roles. He served as an Operator at the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), conducting operations around the globe. He spent several years working on a joint task force in a counter-terrorism role. Shaffer finished his career coordinating security for major sporting events in the Dallas, Texas, area.
We discussed his time working on the D.C Sniper case in 2002, where HRT Operators arrested the perpetrators. Shaffer explains why HRT deployed alongside the military's Special Mission Units to Afghanistan and Iraq. We also touched on Greg's time working on counter-terrorism investigations across Asia. Greg founded the Shaffer Security Group, providing various services, including training and security. Tune in
- Working drug seizures in the coastguard in south Florida alongside the DEA
- Joining the FBI
- Working in the San Franciso Field Divison on a drug and gang Task Force
- Joining HRT
- Working the D.C Sniper case
- Deploying overseas and working alongside Delta Force in Iraq
- Working Counter Terrorism investigations at the National Terrorism Center
- Designing security for large-scale events
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| 0:00.0 | Rescue of Lake Side Teen Hannah Anderson from her kidnapper James Sabajo has this exclusive video from the FBI showing her rescue in Idaho. |
| 0:08.0 | You can see this highlighted area where they're moving around down there two years ago. |
| 0:12.0 | ABC's Pierre Thomas has a closer look. |
| 0:15.0 | It was the ugliest of nightmare scenarios. |
| 0:19.0 | A California house on fire. In the ashes, a shocking discovery. |
| 0:23.8 | Chard remains. Christina Anderson bound and gagged nearby her eight-year-old son, Ethan. They had been |
| 0:30.4 | killed. Her daughter, 16-year-old Hannah, was missing. The prime suspect, a trusted family friend, |
| 0:36.8 | 40-year-old James DiMaggio. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm begging you to let my daughter go. |
| 0:40.8 | You've taken everything else. |
| 0:42.4 | Amber Alerts issued a massive manhunt launched, and the FBI called into help. |
| 0:47.3 | There's no turning back for him. |
| 0:48.9 | I think he thought that he and Hannah would have a relationship and she would somehow fall in |
| 0:53.6 | love with him. |
| 0:58.0 | Six days later, nearly a thousand miles away from San Diego, horseback riders near Cascade, Idaho, reports seeing two people matching DiMaggio and Hannah's description. |
| 1:04.0 | The first positive lead we had. |
| 1:06.0 | The FBI sent up a jet with a sophisticated long-range camera recording from thousands of feet above. |
| 1:13.0 | Then a dramatic moment. There at the lake, two people. Look again. It's Hannah and DiMaggio. |
| 1:18.8 | DiMaggio takes off his shirt and moves toward Hannah. Later, something unexpected. Hannah suddenly |
| 1:24.4 | starts waving. DiMaggio never notices. He's over to the right tending the fire. |
| 1:29.3 | But look, Hannah keeps waving. |
| 1:31.3 | Is she signaling the aircraft? |
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