Jack Barsky

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659 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2025 last heard 11 Feb

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SNAFU with Ed Helms · Entering the world of a Former KGB Spy (with Jack Barsky) · 11 Feb 2026 podcast

Yeah, a real frickin' spy.

It was one of the highlights of my career to have this conversation.

So here it is, my special episode talking to Jack Barsky, former KGB spy.

Welcome.

We get into all the Soviet era paranoia and KGB chaos during the Cold War from someone who saw all of it right from the inside.

This guy is quite a character.

We had an incredible chat.

You're not going to want to miss this one.

Also, just be aware next week we'll be back as usual.

All right.

Enjoy.

Hey, Snafu listeners, this is your host, Ed Helms, back in your feed for another bonus episode.

This one is really, really cool.

If you told me a year ago that I would be having a conversation with a former KGB agent, I would just tell you that you're cuckoo bananas.

But it actually happened.

Now, over the course of our show, we got a healthy dose of espionage intrigue through our friends Oleg Gordievsky and Reiner Rupp, the two spies at the center of the Able Archer story.

But the KGB had a whole network of operatives all over the world, each one on their own separate mission.

One of those spies was a man named Jack Barsky, who infiltrated the U.S.

in 1978, then eventually defected from Russia and became a U.S.

citizen.

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