JACK BARSKY | Spying on the US as a KGB Agent (Ep. 613)

Undaunted.Life: A Man's Podcast by Kyle Thompson

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we welcome Jack Barsky to the show. He is a former sleeper agent for the KGB, author, and Christian speaker. He spied on the US from 1978 to 1988 at the behest of the Soviet Union. After the Cold War, Barsky became a US counterintelligence agent. He details his life and story in his autobiography Deep Undercover. In this interview, we discuss what it was like growing up under Communist control in East Germany, how Communist ideals where ingrained in him and his classmates starting at a very early age, the process of him being observed and recruited by the KGB, what his job as a sleeper agent inside the US entailed, what happened when the KGB thought his cover had been blown, how he got out of the world of espionage, how he became a Christian even though he did not grow up around any kind of Christian ethic, what parents can do to prevent their children from being romanced by Communism, and much more. Let’s get into it… Episode notes and links HERE. Donate to support our mission of equipping men to push back darkness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm your host Kyle Tom. This is Undaunted Life A Man's Podcast.
0:24.0	I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
0:25.8	Let's get into it.
0:27.2	All right guys, we've got a special guest on the podcast today.
0:29.2	His name is Jack Barski.
0:30.7	So Jack is a former sleeper agent for the KGB.
0:34.0	Yeah, seriously.
0:35.0	He's also an author, a Christian speaker, and an IT specialist.
0:38.0	He actually spied on the United States from 1978 to 1988 at the behest of the Soviet Union.
0:44.0	After the Cold War, Barski became a U.S.
0:46.5	counterintelligence agents, or a counterintelligence agent, there you go,
0:50.2	and he's also the author of his autobiography Deep Undercover.
0:53.0	So I really, really enjoyed this interview today.
0:55.0	We didn't cover a lot of different questions, but we went deep in a lot of different areas.
0:58.0	So we talked about what it was like growing up in old East Germany.
1:01.0	What was like growing up in this know, in this kind of cultural
1:04.0	milieu of atheism but also, you know, communism and the tenets of communism
1:08.6	being forced down your throat even at an early age like kindergarten, but then we
1:12.0	talk about how starting in the late
1:13.3	60s he was approached by what he thought was a member of the Stasi the German
1:17.3	Intelligence Agency but it ended up being a KGB agent and where that led to him
1:22.0	being you know observed and then recruited to go into the
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