Jack Barsky
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So let's talk about the training.
What specific skills are you learning?
What kinds of devices, tradecraft is entering the picture here?
You'd be surprised.
The very first document they gave me to read was a book about the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Just more indoctrination.
But with regard to tradecraft, we're starting out with a shortwave radio reception Morse code.
And then I was taught how to produce secret writing.
It isn't just something you just do.
The KGB produced pieces of paper that were impregnated with just a trace of a chemical.
The way to do this right, I had to be really, really careful.
I had to make sure that everything was totally clean.
If you didn't know what you were looking for, what chemical you were looking for, you wouldn't find anything.
So you're getting some of these skills.