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10. An Ex-KGB Spy in America with Jack Barsky and Chelsea Dittrich

SPYCRAFT 101

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How Did You Get Your First Job in the USSR?

I moved to the USSR to learn English because they had a couple of people who were Native Americans who could teach me American English. I told her that I rediscovered my love for chemistry and was going to join space research by the Soviet Union. The location was Kazakhstan in a highly secret area that you couldn't get close to without permission. So that's where she couldn't possibly even attempt to find me. In order to keep up appearances, I pre-wrote letters in handwriting and postcards,. birthday card and so forth in Moscow that were periodically releasedSo that my mother had the idea that I was actually writing.

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