Jack Barsky
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SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
So that makes the KGB super exciting.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
And, okay, so you meet with Herman.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
So it's just lots of meetings.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
It was a very slow ramp up.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
Initially, I would meet with him in his car, sort of at the edge of town.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
After some, maybe three, four months, he must have determined that I was a really good candidate.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
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?
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
No, no, no, no, no.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
All the people that I worked with, both in East Germany and then during my time in Moscow, were gentlemen.
SNAFU with Ed Helms
S4E19: Former KGB Spy Jack Barsky
Our weapons were supposed to be our brains.