I Was A Russian Spy And Failed A Mission
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2018
- Jack Barsky explains how he began working for the KGB and had a collective mission failure.
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Jack Barsky
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"However weird you are, there's always somebody more weird." Perfect description of NYC.
Facts
Same is true for LA
Austin Tx. Keep austin weird is their actual model.
When I tell you I read this as he spoke it
Lol
Did I just watch a ten minute long commercial for a book
right. lol
Guess he got tired of fighting capitalism
correct
Thanks for this comment. Saves my time XD
thats buzzfeed for ya!
He rushed B, but forgot to flash.
Simple 1 ahahahha😂😂
he coulda just threw his awp and used it as a fake flash s1mple:)
@@anth0nyandrew
You rush B with p90
Cyka blyat :P
The prob is not that he forgot to flash. The problem is that he rushed b. Treating his life like it's an eco round.
He is actually an active KGB agent disguised as retired KGB agent
Well played
Plot twist
haha could be
If someone made this guy's life story into a movie I'd definitely watch it
The Americans, watch it
me to
there is alredy tv show about it called blacklist
@@armanczI'm not an American I'll still watch it if it becomes a movie to compare old spaying tactics with modern technological ones.
@@abojasem99 The Americans is a TV show :D
“How ever weird you are there’s always somebody more weird.” I just love that part, cause it’s so true.
Lee Olsson especially in NY lol
Lee Olsson but what if YOURE the weirdest?? and no one else is weirder?? 😧
Rockinashy then the most boring person is weirder to you in your eyes
Lee Olsson o
Lee Olsso
"I looked at the questionair and said....SH*T"
LMAO
me in every exam
lool 😭😭
interesting mission
Dog
But theres no next time
Snake
Its "Mission fail try better next time
WW3?
This can literally be turned into a movie
omg, imagine if it were a series. I would watch tf out of that.
Justin Brinkerhoff it probably will
Justin Brinkerhoff *I would love that*
Justin Brinkerhoff so true
Justin Brinkerhoff is a MUST !
The way he tells his story is so interesting
A.M Lash
Because its scripted (;
the way he reads* "his" story is so interesting
Spiun rus!!
russians know how to talk..straight to the point
Hey buzzfeed tell your editor to lay off the adderall these cuts are making me feel carsick
😂
So valid and true
🤣
Tyler Yugen 😂😂😂😂💀
🤣
don't worry m8 I also failed the mission to steal my teacher's grading book .
Dildo Saurus I once accidentally got my math teachers
Dildo Saurus lol I succeeded stealing my teachers whole math book key.
do u even know what ur pfp is m8
@@amari2509 yes its a creature in a game i used to play
what game?
This is a reeeeeally good ad for a book..
lol ikr? the end was such a cliffhanger
it was a Ad
Everyone who writes a book these days sells them to people. Scientists, Philosophers, Journalists, etc all squeeze in their books to any debate, conversation, monologue or interview.
His grandkids must have so much fun with all these stories
1 savage yesss
(Grandchildren)
Phil M no, there is nothing wrong with his grammar
Hi kids let me tell you that one story of when I was a Russian spy .
*he said W T*
*A*
i cant stop laughing at this lmao
I’m confused
ᶦ’ᵐ ᵃ ˢᵖʸ, ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ʷʰʸ ᶦ’ᵐ ʷʰᶦˢᵖᵉʳᶦⁿᵍ...
ˢʰʰʰʰʰ...
👽
💀
You're a fucking idiot, lmao.
@@Durcy 😂😂
@@Durcy true 😂😂😂😂
Who else loves this guy’s voice?
Efficiency mee
Efficiency are u gay
Sneakerhead OG very
Efficiency me
Me
*Mission failed. We’ll get them next time.*
Ha. I read that in Soap's voice
Amateur Music Covers i read it in ghosts voice
Yesss I was waiting for that
Danny S it's em not them
Danny S love it
There's a part 2 to this,
The title is called "helped the FBI after leaving the KGB"
haha. He definitely did. The FBI agent who caught him is the godfather of one of his children
secret agent, failed mission = failed filling a form. lmao
filling the form is the access to complete the mission so he didn't do that and the guy failed the whole mission before it began
still very anticlimactic, You will think they got his identity, he had to run or hide on enemy lines, no...he failed a form and went back because they couldn't establish a proper high school background.
@@fleeplayTV That'd be a great movie scene.
Clerk is stamping paper in slow motion, while tense music plays.
A few seconds and the stamp thuds with a thunderous boom.
Lifts stamp to show papers: DENIED
Cut to scene of agent at phone, asking to be picked up; the mission was a failure.
yea, i guess real life simply isnt as interesting as movies or computer games
@Jacob Unger He explained that if he wrote a fictitious high school there, they might check on data on that said school and find out he did not actually study there. There is no internet, but you can make a call. So he will be deported anyways.
He’s so interesting I love it so much.
The Soviets should have won
Max W no communism is a hard 🤣👌
“Mission failed we’ll get em next time”
Dixie Enormous Remember No Russians
I read it with soaps voice
Joey Brandt stole a comment lol
Stolen comment lmao
Dank skin R ur gay
This poor old man probably doesn't even know about buzzfeed's affiliations and reputation. He probably thought he's being interviewed by some serious news channel. What he got was a sexist meme machine. FeelsBadMan
I don't know dude...3.8 million views is nothing to sneeze at...
@@hydevanhelsing5063 That just shows there are 3.8 million feminists worldwide that watch buzz feed
ikr
@@shea2111 With a name like "Sausage Cream," nobody will ever believe you.
You do realize that Buzzfeed is a pretty well respected news source? Buzzfeed does report serious news stories.
Damn, if his brain goes so quick at this age, imagine what he was like younger. He must've been completely insane
Damn it, I wanted him to speak in Russian.
How we gonna understand him subs can be annoying
Lydia Wonderlost subs is easy
Zoya Haque Sometimes they are not fully synced with the audio...
I don't think he speaks Russian. He's German and to me it sounds like English is the only other language he ever learnt.
Blin
So it turns out he probably is getting his own series!
Say hi to your assigned agent!
Vitaliya Miri Except KGB doesn't exist anymore
Glorbiie that's what they want you to think
Glorbiie As conspiracy like as it sounds, there’s no way of knowing for sure. If not the KGB I’m sure many countries have secret organizations with their own agendas.
Virginia wilkerson uhoh, better hide!
I once also failed a mission to follow a train
Dr. Drake Ramoray All you had to do was to follow the damn train CJ
@@Unknown-zi7wx lol
Damn CJ
it's not funny once you change your name and pfp
@@mattmysterious866 oh no i had a pfp of joey earlier
1. Make this video
2. Write autobiography
3. ?????
4. Profit
Gotta love capitalism 🇺🇸
S T O N K S
BURN-E movie
Underpant Gnomes from South Park :D
That's insane that he trained himself so well to not have an accent
imlee888 when you live in the us you lose your accent. It’s normal. I am german myself and after a year i didn’t sound german anymore.
Annika thats because you are young. Once you're over the age of 20 it's almost impossible to lose your original accent
imlee888 he does have one
Well I guess I did the impossible several times then, go me! It is absolutely possible to loose your original accent as an adult, it just demands a little more work than if you start learning as a child.
A family friend trained away a thick Irish accent.... Cost a lot and took a LOT of work. 30 years later his wife still has the thickest accent you'll ever hear
I love how he lost his accent every once in a while XD
KendraDaGamerZ no. His accent is in certain words and phrases. Im russian but i was born in america and i know his accent is real
Wamino I didn't say his accent wasn't real I can easily tell it is he just lost it on certain words I know it's real tho
SERPENTS FOREVER
200th like
KendraDaGamerZ that’s just like my Grandfather! He’s 100% Swiss, and his accent is sooo strong but sometimes it breaks and it’s like “who dis?!”
I wish Some guy came to my Door And offered me a Government Job😂😂 Damn times have changed Lmao
Evolution of KGB operations
1980s: Elaborate multi-year plan to establish our smartest agent's capital, connections, back story, etc.
2016: Troll farm
Brave man who is not afraid of getting poisoned by a nerve agent
ziljin you are everywhere
xXMediaTrix ikr
He’s been talking for years.
Well he wasn't technically a russian, he was an East German. I guess that's an exception.
ziljin if he was KGB then he would have worked for the Soviet Union which ended in 1991. I doubt Russia really cares.
Please do more of these! They’re so interesting, and more people my age need to appreciate people’s experiences in recent history. ♥️
Navy Rosie they have another video speaking on buzzfeed blue called how I faked being an American.
Heather Wyckoff awesome thanks ☺️ I’ll check it out
Navy Rosie you’ll have to read his book so he gets some profit from being in these videos
Navy Rosie maybe not so many people want a bounty on their heads for revealing information. (For more current organizations)
Ha old are you?
This dude sounds and talks like a hardboiled detective from the filmnoir movies of the 1950s
Somehow i think this guy still works for Russian government
You really think that Russians would hire someone who speak about KGB publicly
@@Dushan88 Yea. Especialy when this guy is not telling anything serious.
@@David_Me825 he's a good storyteller but i doubt real kgb (even former) would be going public
Also i read somewhere that when former "spies" write books and memoirs is actually they are told to do it, usually there's an agenda behind it because why isn't there any valuable information in these so called spy books, it's stuff we already know.
@@Dushan88 its the perfect cover to hide in plain sight
@@David_Me825 he cant say anything extremely serious that country he worked with has intel and he cant say it its classified thats why he said no question nothing just listen
This guy is very lucky he still alive right now. What are the odds of Soviet spies surviving from a failed mission.?
Arya Gunawan as long as they’re Russian they can survive a failed mission to mars xDDD
Have you even watched the video? it was a collective failure, not his fault.
Mad:) Oh then it was my fault, i didnt watch the video yet. I just only see the title lol..
Reality Productions Cool story, but seems like you are the one who was brainwashed. XD
Arya Gunawan very slim
They need to put him in the next Taken movie with Liam. That voice is addictive.
Or in a new Jason Bourne movie 😎
And now I’m ready to spill the bean
I noticed that as well.
There really is only one bean, in the end.
I was a spy once.. as a class vice president i sneak into our teachers desk and took a pic of the questionares of our future quiz.. i failed.
Turned out it was our homework.
He’s either very well trained, or just a normal American playin with all of us😂
or he played alot off call of duty and thinks his playing it in real life
Propaganda 🎶
He looks german
He is not playing around my friend
potato he was born in east Germany
I'm glad he's back I love him
Faiza hey ... I am glad you give me your back, I love it
Faiza Glad I'm him he's back I love
Jhon Oudeis nice one weirdo.. you honestly think she’s gonna head over heels over the idea?
Faiza where else was he on? 😊
samboodeh He was in a bunch of this channels videos, if you type in 'buzzfeedblue spy' you'll get all of them 😊
This man is the epitome of being in the right place, at the right moment.
How did you get into this? “I was in my room and someone from KGB knocked at my door”
LOL They weren't going door to door asking anyone, they knew he was a loyal communist who got good grades and were looking for him specifically.
Agents and officers are almost always recruited in high school or college. Its not something you apply for. They find you
Ancient one : i am 2 years late of this youtube recommendations...
He sounds american/italian
A true spy
Bejdza italian wtf?
He sounds german
Eric Cartman didn’t you listen to what he said? His cover story is that he grew up with parents who spoke German that’s why he has a bit of a German accent.
arabella Wirklich...
Bejdza or just a faker 😂
Stop it with the constant camera movements
Jeff Bear so fucking annoying
Antonio Sarmiento you fucking know it fam
right
I had to stop watching
Thanks for the information. I'll be looking out for people just like you.
This guy is the best salesman lol
Mission failed we’ll get ‘em next time
Too soon 💀
I is no one no one at all All you had to do was follow the train CJ
Karina Rios did you come up with that one yourself
U copied the real Joseph
I've seen this same exact comment 4 other times on this video, what's the deal?
"And he said WHAT"😂😂😂 love that part
Chocolate Donut same lol
Chocolate Donut sameeee lol
Wtf an ad? Seriously? You can't leave us hanging like this.
Now pay him.
Yeah we aren't Mussolini
@@yodathemassshooter5161 LOL HAHA
We don't like Resistance(Ohm) from you 😂
great editing. love this guy
Next week on Buzzfeed Unsolved: The Unexplained Death of Jack Barsky
Eric Sullivan LOL 😂😂
LMAO 😂😂😂
Eric Sullivan LMFAO!😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂
Suspicious novichok on door knob
*MISSION FAILED ! WE’LL GET EM NEXT TIME*
The Real Joseph Stalin Shall he be sent to the gulag?
hahahaha
😂😂😂😂👏
Nice😂
Little Napoleon not yet
Thanks for sharing
In the podcast THE AGENT he tells his story in details, it's amazing.
I couldn’t be a spy I tell my mom everything 🤷🏻♀️
Snitch
@@Naj2jacked shut up
He's giving me Liam Neeson vibes
SheLoves lol
It’s probably the Schindler’s List role and accent to boot
That’s what it is!
Or like Liam Lee Jones
"I was a Russian spy and I failed a Mission"
*Forgot to replace the cheese sandwich to a ham sandwich*
I LOVE this man's story!! I read his book. So good!
Mission failed!! We’ll get em next time!!
Andres Guzman this is what I looking for!
In Russia, you don't fail the mission, the mission fails you.
Nevermind that doesn't make any sense.
Nice try XD
Im getting aquaruia "i don't define drag, drag is difined by me" flasbacks. Only some will get that refrence..
why aRE YOU GETTING LIKE EVERY SINGLE TOP COMMENT NOW 😂
Soviet Russia*
Why do I see you EVERYWHERE
Thinking about it this guy could still teachnicly be undercover
Me: sees a video about the USSR
Also me: sees it’s buzzfeed
*A small price to pay for salvation*
So much information in just ten minutes
He looks like a sweet old man..... welp
Rin Music thats what a spy want you to think
Looks are deceiving my friend!
how many people do y’all think this sweet old man has killed
kai ! most spies don’t kill anyone
kai ! He isnt james bond
*Mission failed, boys, we'll get 'em next time.*
After having gone to so much trouble to train Barsky and get him into the US, I'm astounded that the KGB hadn't provided him with sufficient verifiable information to apply for a US passport. This is even more surprising given that presumably there must have been other KGB agents who'd successfully attained US passports prior to Barsky meaning the KGB should have known the process and briefed him on what was required.
Seems to be poor work on the KGB’s part.
Things were different in pre-internet, pre hi tech America. And the KGB had to start somewhere. So i can see how he could’ve been the first, or one of the first facing the more extensive passport application.
Everything wasn’t as structured and buttoned up then. There weren’t centralized databases with complete, uniform info readily available. The US agent was paying attention and properly trained. Training and procedures evolve over time, maybe they’d recently instituted new guidelines or additional agent training, for example.
I recently saw a video about airplane hijackings and airport security measures in the 70s. Thats when the public began to travel by air as it became more affordable and accessible to the upper reaches of the rapidly growing middle class. As a new and growing business and consumer travel mode, it took time to recognise the dangers exploitable and weaknesses. People and baggage weren't screened or searched, both went right on the plane. It took a few hijackings and murders by plane for the industry to realize how vulnerable air flight was.
You could arrive at the gate 5 min before takeff and walk on the plane. You could give a ticket you’d bought to another person if something came up and you couldnt
travel at that time. You could switch your seat on the plane if there was another empty seat you liked better. I give these examples to show that knowledge and attitudes were different, back then.
Technology and info availability grew leaps and bounds over the last 40ish years. So i think this KGB’s agent’s experience was quite believable. The only way the KGB would learn about procedural details like the info required on the most recent customs application version would be to learn it through spying.
Yes you right KGB could have back him up as professional spies’ school. Nonetheless acted as an amateur spy school. My take on that is that KGB has shown this amateur style in a number of occasion, so they have more name than they deserve. Luck of us.
he's gonna die next week of 'unexplainable consequences'
kaship98 it's a joke but alright.
Do not worry, he will have a life what ever to have to deal with later , forgiving himself is hard , i would think
Aisha And then Ryan and Shane will make a BuzzFeed Unsolved episode on him
my thoughts too... I'm a bit worried for his safety, but it's probably unfounded. I love all the videos he's in.
Enzo Swedianto lols, isn't the next episode supposed to come out today ?
This man could probably kill us by staring
Thank god you are alive for this interview 😁
"New York was a good pick, because somebody like me with the weird backstory, however weird you are there was always somebody more weird..." Ain't that the damn truth lmfao
What if he's still a spy 🤯
He going deep
KGB is dead
If he was a spy, he would be killed. But the KGB died the moment the Soviet Union collapsed. It's spy network is nothing like it once was.
Random S I was thinking the same thing
ahahahhah.... is it....
He's still a spy, hiding in plain sight. It's BRILLIANT
Very interesting story, thanks for making the video!! :)
one of the coolest stories ive ever heard
Drinking game take a sip of your drink everytime they do a camera angle change ..why tf is there a camera angle change every 5 seconds tho ...
Oracle VII for dramatic effect
tried it, got alcohol poisoning after 30 seconds.
So he's cool and not enemy.
keeps the audience engaged
to keep it interesting
A KGB agent failed a mission because he had to fill a form up. 😂
OMFG. I LAUGHED at this!!! It's SO true!!!
One point for Bureacracy!!! LOLOL~!!!
Bureaucracy, hilarious!!
However, let’s train you to fake join the Taliban, etc. as a spy...😱
@@wonderwoman6019 Hey man..he will still be unable to become the president😂😂😂
If buzzfeed was just stuff like this it would be my favourite content on CZcams
I would like to hear his opinion on the Russian spy poisoning in the U.K.
MicrosoftBob вы всё врете 🤥, это всё неправда, товарищ.
It happened a few minutes away from me! I live in Salisbury 😦 can’t believe my small city would be this famous😂
Kelly Wilson I don’t live very far away either. I’m from totton and it really shocked me that something so big would happen so nearby!
Kelly Wilson right! literally nothing ever happens Salisbury and now all this shits going down 😂
MicrosoftBob failure
Absolutely LOVE this series. I am ordering his book stat. So interesting, great character, fascinating history. Thank you Jack Barsky for being an invaluable primary source. I'm a super fan, I don't care that you were KGB, all is forgiven.
What a story! Every side has its agents, so many stories to tell
Jon Voigt could play this guy
my name is mr sir hahah
Why are there so many cuts? It's making me nauseous. It's like the editor has severe ADD or sometihng.
Buzzfeed
you gotta get that 10min ad revenue boii
Most human beings don't speak in perfect uninterrupted sentences all the time, and don't necessarily tell things in a logical or linear manner. So in order to construct a video that is easy to follow and doesn't feel boring you have to cut a lot of unnecessary phrases and pauses out, as well as rearrange the order in which the phrases were said in. Editing a video like this is like writing a script, but instead of starting with a blank page and having to make everything up yourself, you piece it together from the things the interviewee said, even phrase by phrase sometimes. While the cutting pace may not be ideal, and it may even feel annoying, I guarantee you the video would be much more boring if they just let his answers play out.
damn so that means the reality tv editors have ADD too oof
*ADHD
I though he was going to say something like ‘ *A bounty hunter was after me and they almost killed me*’ but never mind the story is interesting anyway.
No questions off limits. I thought you’re going to spill the beans
0:19 “ I’m ready to spill the beans “ 😂😂😂
He didn’t fail the mission the mission failed him
Sav .k7 that doesn't make sense
You copied the guy
"Headquarters of the KGB in Germany"
Buzzfeed is showing the headquarters of the KGB in Moscow...
Well done researching! 😂🤦🏻♂️
Para Leptica I don’t get it
The Mason Guy he was talking about the hq in Germany, but the editor showed pictures of the Russian HQ
the KGB HQ in East Germany, which is no longer a country (Germany was reunified in 1990), DEFINITELY no longer exists. And due to the Iron Curtain, they would have no public photographic record of it, either.
Ich weiss bro
Gemmy Doadance Also I believe the building was demolished shortly after reunification for pretty obvious reasons.
definitely going to check out his book
I was a bartender in UN in New York and I remember meeting this guy and I remember mentioning it to an individual who was an American liaison to w Germany at the time. I remember him asking a lot of personal questions and I remember him asking me about my education I just thought it was very intrusive conversation. I also remember he had a date at this party or reception the date was a guy a very young guy if I remember
O O
Source: trust me bro
The guy is heterosexual to the core. I just watched him on Lex Friedman.
Of course he has a book...
Troglodytic 6 Masses are you a traveling man?
@@265darkmirror 🤐
I’d read it
From kgb to capitalism!
The way he tells story is just so interesting and suspenseful, I love it.
I want a movie of this
3:08 that picture is the Moscow headquarters in Lubyanka square... some joke that its the tallest building in Moscow, since it's the only place in the whole country where you could see Siberia from the basement! :)
OMFG!!! LOLOLOLOL!!!!! (I ACUTALLY laughed out loud and scared my cat LOLOLOL!!!)
I might be tired.
Me when I can't find the guy my friend flirted with...
kata lol
katalog
catalog
and
SMACKALOG
@zbestman1 Doubt it
I don’t get it.
I won't lie - that book's looking real tempting. Might have to give it a read when I have the money. I'm also a writer, though a fiction writer, and having knowledge of spies and their work is absolutely helpful and inspiring.
Such a nice way to promote your book
Holy heck that guy is so cool somehow. I love his voice. So catchy.
You dont spill tea you spill beans
Lolol whys everyone tryin to get logical with me? 😂😂please learn how to take a joke..
differnt countries use different phrases, same thing basiclly
U cant take a joke can u..
Deadass
no its tea
I'm your brother