Former KGB Spy Rates 9 Russian Spy Scenes In Movies | How Real Is It? | Insider

Lmao at "The Americans are quite civilized… They will not torture you…"
Prisoners at Guantanamo would like a word…

“there’s no Russian born in Russia that can speak without an accent.” I can’t prove he is wrong, but I don’t believe that.

So, we had had a KGB's former operative, the CIA chief of disguise, an army combat expert, a safe cracker, a reformed mafia boss, a retired Navy admiral, a former drug smuggler, a covert operations officer, an outdoors survival expert, a helicopter pilot veteran, a professional hunter, a military historian and a former undercover cop. Outsider can gather a Mission Impossible style heist crew in no time…

I am waiting for the "former serial killer reaction" episode.

"They will not torture you; worst they will do is slap you a couple of times."

Well, WE call it torture. By Russian standards, yeah, our methods look like slaps on the wrist.

The music is extremely distracting. This is an interview, not a string of action scenes. I don't want to feel pumped for it with a rollercoaster of violins going on and off.

If a spy is rating movies he is definitely a spy lol

Im still honored by the fact that Jack Barsky commented on one of my uploads of an old GDR spy TV Series, citing it as one of his inspirations to become a spy

According to various sources, one of which is my dad who retired from from this line of work some years ago – the Russians attempted to create people that were basically pseudo americans . The Russians lost around 40 million people during WW2, most of whom were men and they left a lot of women and children behind. Indeed many russian baby-boomers were born into orphanages. Which were state run.
Now here is where what I am about to describe, cannot be – and to the best of my knowledge has not been – verified. Nevertheless it really hasn't been dis-proven and the Russians never denied it. And why would they? It only serves to make them look hyper competent if turns out to be true. At any rate no physical evidence (like pictures) have ever been forthcoming either.

Basically during the cold war the russians (KGB and GRU) built little towns deep inside russia that were "American" in every way except location. Right down to the buildings, roads, and even american cars. None of this would have been difficult for the Russians to do. After all we were an open society by comparison so they had all the info they needed from just magazines alone. The cars could easily be purchased and shipped to russia during that time without raising any eyebrows. Anyway some of these very very young parentless children were placed with KGB or GRU families and were raised as americans in these fake american towns.

So they could have easily learned english with the american accent and not a russian accent.

Naturally they would also be taught russian but only after learning english. It has never been clear at what age these kids were told they were being groomed to be spies. Nor is it clear what would become of the kids that didn't make the cut either. The ones that did were given false paperwork and came to America as Americans returning from vacation abroad and for all intents and purposes they literally could "pass as americans". I/E they would not have Russian Accents.

All of this is speculation based on rumors from defectors, long serving intelligence officers, and probably certain think tanks in sourthern california. POINT IS – this is one possible way russian agents learned english without sounding like Borat.

These days, if someone worked for the FBI I would question their patriotism to the USA – after the fact that they set up J6 protestors as scapegoats and political prisoners, and the fact that they subsequently scapegoated parents and patriotic Americans as potential "domestic terrorists." That's Communist-level tactics.

WIRED has more charismatic/interesting presenters

Red sparrow was pretty pornographic.

4:23 sure was. Lol even after the fall, the CIA, FBI, NATO and NSA were all compromised by the KGB/SVR. The soviets won the spy war hands down.

just a 4/10 for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy? Maybe it was just a specific scene he saw out of context but it’s frequently cited as being one of the most accurate depictions of spying in literature, TV & film and was written by a former member of the british intelligence. There’s many scenes that have direct real life parallels.

Americans scene at 6m is not US interrogating the Jennings, in the series the KGB is sniffing out a mole and arrests thm to scare them… to see if its them… just to clarify that. It is a scene of KGB pretending to be US FBI.

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How is a KGB spy allowed citizenship but ppl fleeing wars (usually started by the US) aren't

just like any military or government agency, there are many different parts and most of the time people in one section don’t know about what’s going on in other sections. very compartmentalized for the sake of keeping operations to a need to know basis, you don’t need your entire military to know you have a specialized group that deal with secret assignments or what they’re doing, that information would get out FAST.

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I watched a video where someone opened an American quarter and it had a chip in it