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Low budget stopped check of embassy raid details
The former Delta Force commander Col. Charlie Beckwith says a security survey of U.S. embassies including Tehran was canceled due to State Department budget constraints before the 1979 embassy takeover. He notes embassies had low security priority, and cites a deadly Islamabad incident as a preventable outcome with higher security.
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Kuwait
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