Jack Barsky is a former KGB spy and author of “Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America”. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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0:00 – Introduction
1:18 – KGB
14:09 – Communism
33:10 – Childhood
39:57 – Becoming a KGB agent
1:18:30 – Training
1:32:19 – Language
1:38:10 – Moscow
1:53:11 – Spying
2:10:09 – Putin
2:13:01 – War in Ukraine
2:24:28 – Putin in the KGB
2:31:21 – Yuri Bezmenov
2:41:59 – FSB and CIA
2:49:49 – Putin and Zelenskyy
2:58:39 – Quitting the KGB
3:24:57 – Love and regrets
3:33:10 – Mortality
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