Jack Barsky
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Absolutely, 100%.
So that makes the KGB super exciting.
Oh, my God, yes.
Absolutely, yeah.
And, okay, so you meet with Herman.
Let's meet again.
So it's just lots of meetings.
It was a very slow ramp up.
Initially, I would meet with him in his car, sort of at the edge of town.
After some, maybe three, four months, he must have determined that I was a really good candidate.
Was there anything in your recruitment that made you think they want me to be capable of extreme violence or, you know, that spying involved, you know, like scary altercations, weaponry and close quarters combat and all that sort of thing?
No, no, no, no, no.
All the people that I worked with, both in East Germany and then during my time in Moscow, were gentlemen.
Our weapons were supposed to be our brains.