Spies & Spymasters Virtual Happy Hour | Real Life “Americans” with the Barsky Family

What happens when a Soviet spy decides his American life is the best fit? Join Jack Barsky and Spy Museum Curator and Historian Vince Houghton for a discussion of Barsky’s double life as an American businessman who was really an East German spy for the Soviets in the 1980s.
Barsky, who shared his story in the book Deep Undercover: My Secret Life & Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America, is featured in our Spies Next Door exhibition. He will be joined by the top reason he stayed in the States-his daughter Chelsea Dittrich. She has told her own unique story in the A&E documentary, The Spy Who Raised Me. Get ready for a cozy family evening spy style.
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[@GaryM-wt3qo]

The commentary is that Jack talks too much. I think not. I think that what you are seeing is that he is a highly observant, and equally articulate, mixed with a scientific/objective mind, yields a person who is describing his environment which is very interesting to him.

[@arielbarbosa7337]

I bought this book last month.It is definitely an interesting story.I highly recommend you guys to read it.

[@workingguy6666]

This was really good. Thank you.

[@happy2beesaved]

Great story!!

[@VeryBlueCactus]

Wait a second! Behind Chelsea, there's a polish version of his book! Why is it in Polish? I'm Polish so it was a pleasant surprise

[@christopherk222]

Ending ??? Bring it back !

[@robbieh1899]

Its all a BIG game...

[@JohnR84]

Vince’s Picture on his wall is reminiscent of the Coen Brothers Film Barton Fink ; )

[@lacharmer441]

He totally has an accent. Doesn’t sound German or Russian but still has an accent.

[@selena0ldenoughtoknowbette244]

Interesting, especially since I was a young adult in the 80's.

[@GaryM-wt3qo]

I love how impartial he is, it is clear he is/was married to another ethnicity, with quite a beautiful consequence. A lovely human. Christ, I hope, is proud of him.

[@billbarrett6285]

I don't understand why Jack couldn't tell them about his daughter and ask for her to come back with him.

[@Northdallasguy00]

Wow. His daughter‘s damn good looking

[@ruthie8785]

stop

[@worddunlap]

I knew a family they fled East Germany in the 70s and it was no picnic. It was amazing they survived. Years later they were still hunted. The father worked in the Soviet Military industrial complex. The children were our playmates. They were not the only people running from communism I've known. Funny how the same story played out globally and how similar they all were. I don't think McCarthyism was wrong. We should have doubled down with it.

[@alithelin1234]

whats up with your channel

[@xxDOGFARTxx]

I hear the German accent more than anything. Idk what they’re talking about

[@JimBo-gu1qv]

Germans can,t pronounce Squirrel..They say Sqvirrrel !!

[@Keb_Ma]

The irony is that not many english speaker can properly pronounce the corresponding German word for Squirrel, which is "Eichhörnchen". They say Eickhörncken. "Ch" in German is a guttural/hissing sound non-germanics usualy struggle with, especially in the southern German accent. Arabic or Hebrew speaker use similar sounds in their language, so it's easier for them.

[@paulz6491]

The book was great, the interviewer was terrible, not listening and not asking good follow-up questions.