He was no use to us there. I was quite an egomaniac. And when I was hired by one of those terribly evil insurance companies I found out that they were just the opposite. No.

Say that three times real fast. It worked! Albert Dittrich is Jack Barsky in the eyes of the US government. Chelsea: He started chuckling to himself and he said, "Well, I'm a, I was a spy. Jack Barsky: Yeah, otherwise I wouldn't have done it (laughs). Steve Kroft: ...Joe Reilly up on the hill with the binoculars? I'm like, "What? They made a number of mistakes in terms of giving me advice, what to do, what not to do.
And during the course of that dispute, he readily admitted that he was an agent, operating from the Soviet Union. They set a trap for him at a toll bridge across the Delaware River as he drove home from work late one Friday afternoon in May of 1997. Dittrich needed an American identity. CBS News So I looked like somebody who just came off a farm. One thing was the fact that he had applied for a Social Security number late in life.

Stoli is pretty good too, but all the other stuff is rather crappyDid you experience any culture shock? They wanted the 29-year-old East German to get a real U.S. passport with his new name, then become a businessman, then insert himself into the upper echelons of American society and then to get close to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski so that he could spy on him. Doch als Rosi aus den Sommerferien kommt, ist es aus. I don't know what I would have done if I had found it, but I know what I did when I didn't find it. The communist spies were the good guys. Steve Kroft: I mean he had reason to be angry with you. Your cover may soon be broken and you're in danger of being arrested by the American authorities." Jack Barsky: I said to them, "Listen, I know I have only one shot out of this and that means I need to come clean and be 100 percent honest and tell you everything I know." I grew up in an area where you could not receive West German television. Jack Barsky: A radiogram means a transmission that was on a certain frequency at a certain time. I get out of the car and somebody steps up from, from behind and shows me a badge. When he told his employer recently that he had once been a KGB spy, he was placed on a paid leave of absence. Jack Barsky: Who am I? During the 10 years he worked for the KGB, Barsky had a ready-made cover story. The bureau bought the house next door to get a closer look at the Barskys.

Die Karriere von Albrecht Dittrich ist im Jahre 1969 eigentlich vorgezeichnet: Der damals 20-jährige Student aus Jena glaubt an die Überlegenheit des Sozialismus und den Marxismus als "natürlichen Endzustand". So in order to make my story stick I made my face dirty. If yes, what is an example of that i your life? Chelsea: He said that, you know, he fell in love with me and my, my curls when I was a little baby. Dittrich was born in Reichenbach, Upper Lusatia, East Germany, only a few weeks after the partition of Germany, and grew up in Jena, East Germany.

American. Jack Barsky: Well, you know, sometimes memory fails you.
I was a KGB spy." Statues of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels still stand in the eastern part of Berlin, relics of another era as is the man who straddled two worlds and got away with it.Few journalists have achieved the impact and recognition that Steve Kroft's 60 Minutes work has generated for over two decades. The only people who were aware of his secret were the FBI and Penelope, his wife in America, who subsequently filed for divorce. Ehefrau Shawna, seine jetzige Lebensgefährtin, habe ihn schließlich "zum Menschen" gemacht.Albrecht Dittrich alias Jack Barsky. Steve Kroft: Did the KGB have a pretty good grasp on the United States and how things worked there? Man trifft sich in Jena in der "Sonne", dem ersten Gasthaus am Platz.Der KGB-Agent nennt sich "German". Eine große Rolle spielten dabei immer wieder seine Frauen. Steve Kroft: Did you want to go to the United States?