Jack Barsky
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And did they send someone after him?
They didn't, thank God.
It's another one of those movie scenes.
I went to San Bernardino and they told me, see if he's still teaching at the University of California.
Wait, an assassin had gotten a job as a college professor?
Well, yeah, he defected, you know.
But still, that's a pretty different skill set.
Well, you know, an assassin has to be really smart to get away with what they're doing, right?
I guess so, yeah.
So I'm walking up and down the hallways of the University of California, Bernardino, the last door on the left.
There's a nameplate that says Nikolai Kaklov.
That's the guy I was looking for.
And as I'm looking at this nameplate, the door opens and he comes out.
This is this like delicious situation where an ex-KGB agent who was under a death sentence is looking at a KGB agent who's trying to find him.
Neither I nor he knew who we were.
I found out much later.
He died from natural causes.