At that point, when he said that, I thought he was Stasi, East German secret police. What are your plans after you graduate from college?' In those days in East Germany, you were assigned to a post once you graduated from college. His cover was, at the time, he said, 'I'm a representative from a local business.' And he wanted to just know, because he told me, 'We know that you're a good student. I was a third-year student at university when somebody introduced himself. It was a very, very soft approach, and it took a long time, about almost two years, to finally ask me if I was willing and ready to join them. After Stalin died, they became a little more civilized, but they were still doing bad things. The KGB had a very, very murderous history, particularly in the beginning.

I only know about this from secondhand reports. Jack: The recruitment and training of people who would do things like, you know, go to another country and do bad things to good people. One year's military training four years operational in the field.

You have talents and skills that we can help you develop.Īlex: I'm offering you a fresh start. I'd take that, take it home, and then use some pliers and screwdrivers to open this thing up, and voilà, there was a passport and money in there.Īlex: Your profile interests us. I would occasionally wander around in a park, and oh, boy, here's an oil can, it was a crushed oil can. The way he then opens the coin by using tools that are readily available, and the fact that there was a little piece of paper with some information on it, it's quite realistic because, you know, I got bits and pieces of information through shortwave radio, and I transmitted information in a film cartridge where I photographed the stuff that I wrote down on paper. This is something that could have happened in real life. Today, I'm gonna play movie critic based on my experience, my actual experience in espionage. I spied on behalf of the KGB for 10 years, 1978 to 1988. Jack Barsky: This scene is very realistic.

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