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#301 – Jack Barsky: KGB Spy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The KGB Didn't Put a High Value to That Kind of Integration

Good intelligence could have possibly avoided some of the high tension that situations that we had in the 80s, we got close to nuclear war. Good intelligence would be integrating yourself in society. That's interesting that KGB didn't put a high value to that kind of integration. They didn't know what they didn't know. By the way, this was mutual. Do you think the CIA had good knowledge of Russian culture? Same thing.

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