Jack Barsky and the Secret Soviet Espionage Operation Inside the United States
Jack Barsky, born Albrecht Dittrich in East Germany in 1949, is a former Soviet KGB intelligence operative who spent approximately a decade living undercover in the United States during the Cold War. Recruited by Soviet intelligence while studying chemistry at the University of Jena, Barsky underwent years of specialized espionage training before entering the United States in 1978 and assuming the identity of a deceased American child named Jack Barsky. Operating as an illegal, the intelligence community's term for an undercover operative without diplomatic protection, he established a…
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