Deep Undercover My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

And he recounted his tale in a book called Deep Undercover, which was published in 2017 and shared all that with me today.

And so we walked through all of that. And that's very interesting. Welcome aboard Mr. Barski. I think what came to my mind as the first mystery when I went through your book was the conditions of your upbringing.

I've been writing about this a little bit the pathological part of it is that it seems to me and I want to know what you think about this is that as soon as you make the assumption that anybody who who is more talented or who owns more is more talented or owns more because that's. And that that can only occur as a consequence of injustice and oppression and exploitation then you're setting up a situation where anyone who has any success whatsoever can be hated and and what would you say persecuted with a good conscience.

I've been trying to work through that dynamic theoretically because there is an association between that intellectual pride and utopian presumption you know when you just laid out a psychological dynamic you said you were young. You were celebrated for your intellectual prowess and you can see that intellectual prowess is valuable personally and socially and so you can understand that it being valued is appropriate but then you pointed to the fact that if it's celebrated inappropriately it tends to produce a kind of intellectual pride and condescension and then that works in sync see it works oddly in sync with the utopian presumptions of communism communism is a very intellectual system and it was designed by someone who had very deep intellectual pretensions marks himself and it's that it's that unholy combination of intellectual pride and the proposition that you're acting in that pride on behalf of people who are too foolish or stupid or stupid. You're ignorant or blind or otherwise what incapable of taking care of themselves right and then you could say well you're doing that for all the good reasons but you pointed out right away that there was an element of overweening pride in that that was attractive to you because you were celebrated it for your intellect when you were young.

I'm going to talk. For another half an hour with Jack on the daily wire side and I think we'll probably go deeper into this issue of faith because we've covered a fair bit of his autobiography, which is what I often do.

Jack Barsky wrote a book about his life. It's called Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America.

Jack Barsky wrote a book about his life. It's called deep undercover my secret life and tangled allegiances as a kgb spy in america

Jack Barsky, author of Deep Undercover My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB spy in America.

for those of you who are looking for that will link to that in the show notes

You mentioned in the book deep undercover that caution is a spies best friend and paranoia is his enemy what does that mean?

If you haven't heard part one, go back now and listen, you don't want to miss that and you are depriving yourself of an amazing story.

Jack Barzky, author of Deep Undercover, My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiance is a KGB spy in America.

As I'd say in the book is one of the most evil entities of capitalism to us as we were told in East Germany in those days where the insurance companies I had no idea why they would zero in on insurance companies was banks insurance companies Wall Street these were the epitome of capitalist evil greedy money hoarders and people who exploit others.

There's a book that I read called Stalin's Hangman and that describes the bloody history of the KGB I kid you not page after page every page there's somebody who gets killed sometimes it's one person sometimes it's a group sometimes it's a mass killing literally at one point when I was like two thirds into the book I broke down crying because I realized that what a evil cause I had served even though it was modified and moderated when I joined the KGB but it still had its root and that very evil that was perpetrated on the Stalin.

The book title is Deep Undercover my secret life and tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America

The story is bananas. He consulted for the TV show The Americans which of course is one of my favorite shows on TV back when it was on.

in the book by the way deep undercover is the title my secret life and tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America for those of you who are looking for that will link to that in the show notes

in your book again title deep undercover the school doesn't have any discussion the truth comes down from the top in that play to part

You mentioned in the book deep undercover that caution is a spies best friend and paranoia is his enemy what does that mean?

I realized this in the book is quite the saga but how did you become Jack Barsky who was this person because it's easier for us to say oh it's the person you're talking to now but that wasn't always the case.

If this weren't such a litigious society I would do another book just based on a handshake but in New York City it's not very likely that you find people like that out in public who promise you a great deal.

As I'd say in the book is one of the most evil entities of capitalism to us as we were told in East Germany in those days where the insurance companies I had no idea why they would zero in on insurance companies was banks insurance companies Wall Street these were the epitome of capitalist evil greedy money hoarders and people who exploit others.

I started poking around and I started looking obviously the wall had come down a year after I resigned I started trying to figure out what was East Germany actually all about and there's enough truly authentic information to be found about East Germany because of the way that it fell I was very much disabuse of any residual idea that we were actually doing the right thing we just set the wrong leaders.

There's a book that I read called Stalin's Hangman and that describes the bloody history of the KGB I kid you not page after page every page there's somebody who gets killed sometimes it's one person sometimes it's a group sometimes it's a mass killing literally at one point when I was like two thirds into the book I broke down crying because I realized that what a evil cause I had served even though it was modified and moderated when I joined the KGB but it still had its root and that very evil that was perpetrated on the Stalin.

The book title is Deep Undercover My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB spy in America.

Jack Barsky, author of Deep Undercover My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB spy in America.

for those of you who are looking for that will link to that in the show notes

You mentioned in the book deep undercover that caution is a spies best friend and paranoia is his enemy what does that mean?