Jack Barsky

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Jack Barsky (born May 18, 1949 in Rietschen as Albrecht Dittrich ) is a German-American former KGB spy.

He grew up in Köbeln , a district of Bad Muskau , and graduated from the Karl-Marx-Oberschule, today's Erwin-Strittmatter-Gymnasium in Spremberg , in 1967 . While studying chemistry in Jena , which he also did with a Karl Marx scholarship , he joined the SED and took on his first functions there.

In 1973 he was recruited through the agency of the Stasi and trained for five years in Moscow, among other places. His family was told that he worked for the GDR foreign ministry, and later also for the Soviet space program in Kazakhstan. Since 1978 he lived as a mole under a false identity in the USA . He took the name of 1955 died at the age of ten years, Jack Philip Barsky from Adelphie ( Maryland on). In 1988 there was a presumption that he was exposed by Vasily Nikititsch Mitrochin . Instead of leaving the country as instructed, he pretended to be infected with HIV and stayed. His arrest took place in May 1997. He was "probably the last KGB agent in the USA". He became a US citizen in 2014.

Originally, he was supposed to get into the closer circle of acquaintances of the presidential advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński . During his several years of undercover existence, there was apparently only one real espionage activity for the Soviet Union : He revealed an economically lucrative program code to which he had gained access as part of his work as an IT specialist. He has five children and was married three times, at times in bigamy with a wife in the USA and one in the GDR .

Fonts

  • Jack Barsky, Cindy Coloma: The Wrong American: A Double Life as a German KGB Spy in the United States . 2nd Edition. SCM Hänssler, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7751-5826-8 , pp. 424 (American English: Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances . 2017. First edition: Tyndale House Publishers).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Frank Hilbert: A Lusatian spied for the KGB in the USA . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . December 26, 2018 ( lr-online.de [accessed December 30, 2018]).
  2. ↑ a b c d Susanne Koelbl: The spy and the women. KGB agent Jack Barsky. In: Spiegel Online . May 19, 2015, Retrieved August 15, 2017 (article linked to a video).
  3. ^ A b c d e Lars-Broder Keil: Jack Barsky: The incredible life of a German KGB spy . In: The world . March 26, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed June 2, 2018]).
  4. ^ Jean-Martin Büttner: The KGB agent and his friend from the FBI . In: Tages-Anzeiger . May 18, 2015 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on August 15, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Barsky, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dittrich, Albrecht (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American former KGB spy
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Rattle