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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy
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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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() – Introduction
() – KGB
() – Communism
() – Childhood
() – Becoming a KGB agent
() – Training
() – Language
() – Moscow
() – Spying
() – Putin
() – War in Ukraine
() – Putin in the KGB
() – Yuri Bezmenov
() – FSB and CIA
() – Putin and Zelenskyy
() – Quitting the KGB
() – Love and regrets
() – Mortality
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