Meet Jack Barsky...Former Soviet Union KGB Spy Turned American Citizen!

In the 1970s and 1980s, the world was a dangerous place.

Fast forward to 2023 and the world remains a dangerous place that feels like it is on fire!

In this episode of Do You Ever Wonder history meets current events...

Do You Ever Wonder welcomes Jack Barsky who was born in East Germany, recruited by and served for 10 years as an elite KGB spy in the United States living in the shadows, and was called back but because of the love of his young daughter risked death by staying.

Jack is now a U.S. citizen who has been the subject of a 60 Minutes segment in 2015, wrote Deep Undercover, and narrates The Agent that's a 12-part audio drama of his life.

In this politically agnostic (at least the attempt was made to be agnostic) episode Jack and Do You Ever Wonder host Mike Haltman discuss a wide variety of issues that look at the Cold War history of the Soviet Union and the current state of the world.

Some of the topics include...

• The role of a post-KGB organization within Russia,
•  Ukraine-Russia war and the current mindset of Vladimir Putin, his endgame, the potential for an invasion of a NATO nation, and how far he would be willing to go to achieve his goals,
• The history from the Soviet Union to current-day America of government suppression of political opposition,
• The use of propaganda to coalesce  an often willing population around a variety of issues,
• The December 7th Town Hall with Matt Taibbi on the subject of censorship,
• The importance of peace through strength,
• Israel, antisemitism, Gaza, extremism, and bringing the facts about all of the above to the populace.

- The Agent can be found here: https://link.chtbl.com/TheAgent

- Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Undercover-Tangled-Allegiances-America/dp/1496416821

- Jack's website: https://jackbarsky.com/
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