Cold War Spy Discloses His Secret Soviet Operations | Minutes With | UNILAD
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- In this episode of ‘Minutes With’ we sit down with David Butler, a former British spy who was active in East Berlin during the Cold War. David takes us through some of his most dangerous missions including a time when the Stasi chased his vehicle across soviet occupied East Germany. David also shines a light on the less glamorous side of spying, like the time he had to search through Soviet rubbish dumps for any secrets they’d thrown out - not something you see James Bond do very often.
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I love these sit down interviews, but one nit pick. I wish they were longer. Could listen to ones like this for hours.
What a load of rubbish
@@alantreston4805 do us a simple favour and get back to your PlayStation. You’re not welcome on here.
More click bait GARBAGE
imagine the amount of things he didn't tell us
We have a job to do
@@onebullet2689 good one lol
@@vishnuwardhansingh5828 whooosh
There's a whole >30 minute documentary with him in it th-cam.com/video/5dQfp8KUdYA/w-d-xo.html
Full length doc th-cam.com/video/ub82Xb1C8os/w-d-xo.html
Man dug through piles of shit stained documents for Queen and Country. Respect, man. Lol
Yet the government in power today will neglect them should they suffer financially, or need assistance for their accommodation (housing) needs and health care needs after retirement!
@@originalunoriginal4055 They are all too happy sending the lower classes to do their killing and dying, they do not want that on their hands (nor on their children's hands). The poorer classes on fodder & fuel.
And brainwashing our youth into patriotism/nationalism has done decades ov damage. Continues to do damage.
But it goes that way for every nation at the current moment in time. Sadly.
And for the elite who didn't want to lose their wealth
why are u laughing out loud ?
@@adithyan9263 because the man dug through literal piles of shit as part of his job as a spy? I find that amusing.
my mom used to manage a retirement/assisted living facility and one of her patients was an FBI agent from the cold war and a WWII veteran and he used to haft to have a lot of surgery and when ever he had to have surgery there had to be an FBI agent in the room with him to make sure that he doesn't disclose any secret information i got to talk to him a few times and he is the nicest cool guy you will ever meet in your life when he would tell you about his storys from working at the FBI he would like tell something but leave a big bit of it out and if you asked about it he would just wink and smile it was funny but annoying he unfortunately died 2 years ago. Miss you john
still fits a pint in before leaving
True Brit. Amen.
A cultured man , he is.
v British
Kind of like 007 stopping to straighten his tie underwater before swimming away from an explosion 😄
Friendly reminder: this is just the surface.
Nice dude, two comments saying the same shit
@@zakklebowski7712 😂
I dont think its even that.
No shit
Keeping the fantasies alive eh?
Don't wanna ruin that magical world of James Bond like stuff going on, and how a single man got to unveil the biggest threats. 'Right.
I see, PS5 promoting games pretty well.
@@willnicholson18 so thats why it feels so clunky in comparison
@@willnicholson18 Arrogant? You know each dev team develops separately and isn't going to give another company its own IP? Why on earth would you share
@@willnicholson18 Their engine is better. It keeps the arcade-like feeling compared to the one being used in Mordern Warfare.
Mad
@@iilluminumooconfirmed1676 nah it's worse. Game feels like shit.
Who knew mr Bond was digging through garbage, they left that out of the film
The toilet paper was in scarce in USSR. My mom told me that back in 1970s people used to go to Moscow and buy stacks of toilet paper, and people used a rope and did some sort of a necklaces of toilet paper for ease of carrying it around. If you think that toilet paper isn't that expensive to make, well, the planned economy thinks differently.
@Tomato or the baby formula shortage we just had.
Stinks differently 😟😖😫😤🥺
@@Jackzay90 Oh yeah, literally the same thing. Why are so many westerners trying to play down the stupidity of communism?
I remember another tank story where the BRIXMIS happened across where an ERA brick was just tossed aside by a soldier.
Was taken for analysis and gave huge info up. Incredible stories
The Russians had exactly the same teams operating quite legally in West Germany. In fact their base was inside the base of a British Army Unit in a town called Lubbeke. I remember going to a dinner as a young officer with a group of Russians in the camp. Very surreal. Both sides operated quite legally and were given areas they could and couldn't go. Airfields and military bases were of course out of bounds but in a cat and mouse game each side tried to get close to them anyway! If caught the worst that would happen would be that the team would be kicked out of the country and invited not to return. The main aim of these military missions was to have a presence in each others countries so that the teams could confirm to their governments that the enemy was not about to launch a surprise attack. Actually quite a good idea if you think about it! They used to follow big exercises to make sure the armies were not actually going to just keep going and launch a surprise attack.
He looks so normal, the best spies always do!
Well toilett paper was a valuable item in the Soviet Block, so I immagin the just didn't had it. We had shortages in Poland too, it was even shown in one of the comedies from the period.
Good old cut up newspaper pieces on a nail on the wall.
By the 1990’s in Russia and eastern bloc countries they were using the toilet paper similar to ‘izal’ commonly found in England sixty years ago, it was transparent (like tracing paper), also water repellant, shiny and absolutely useless.
Newspaper was actually more effective, and as much use as the newspapers of the 21st century.
No it wasn't lol, this is such an easy thing to look up
Loving the recent surge in spy videos. I'd recommend the podcast True Spies narrated by Hayley Atwell and Vanessa Kirby for anyone looking for more.
Ty for the recommendation. 👍
Check "The Spy Who" podcast as well!
So perfectly put. In this world of information we know less than what these people knew before the internet and mass communication. Scary...how in the dark the public is.
So that's how we got the information on the T80s !
There is footage on you tube where a team run into a column of T80's and film them.
They drank a beer with the pub owner while on the run from potential death penalties lol
This guy is such a badass. Putting himself on the front lines to bring down a totalitarian regime. Mad respect, mate.
...we still live in a totalitarian regime?
I don't think he did it for that reason. In a job like this you need to be pragmatic: You've got your mission, and you do your job. Period. You might be doing it to give your fellow soldiers/fellow spies an advantage in case things escalate, or to avoid that escalation at all, but I guess (at least after a few missions) you rather think of your adversaries as "the guys on the other side" than as "those communists".
All that work and now we're headed towards one ourselves.
@@paladinsmith7050 Truth, though.
He was working for the government which was actively fighting to maintain a colonial empire and, to do so, was funding and directing some of the most brutal terrorist groups and fascist regimes in history. Not sure why you'd have any more respect for this guy than his soviet counterpart. To clarify, I'm talking about groups which took enjoyment from things like murdering babies by throwing them in fires and destroying entire villages while murdering everyone in them. It's not honorable to oppose one totalitarian regime by working for another.
Damn, i guess this guy really liked the new Call of duty cold war campaign
#Capitalism
During my practice teaching, I worked with a German teacher (American born & raised) who spoke the language with zero clue he wasn't German. Also was a former spy. I sussed this out by his constant need for Mylanta for a destroyed stomach lining. "My time in foreign service." I'm good at asking questions, and he did reveal he worked in Berlin doing something that may have involved getting people in and out of the DDR. As long as he didn't give the name of the organization (not CIA) or precisely what all they did. They were given very high-powered methamphetamines in powerful little pills to take as needed. Two years and he had a ruined stomach.
Why did he need the pills?
@@muzzo23 Emergency use. Spy is dead tired from working non-stop for 16 hours, and it's down to needing to dig a tunnel or whatever to escape and survive. He wouldn't elaborate, but I knew a bit about what was going on (smuggling people out of E. Germany) so I didn't press the issue.
@@josi4251 fascinating!,I would be bending his ear all the time,plying him with pints and shots just so he could keep telling me storys.
@@muzzo23 He would only go so far, and then he'd just smile and clam up. When I asked if he were CIA, he laughed. And then he stopped talking.
no one cares
Didn’t know Martin goodman was a Cold War spy😭
shalom
Lol
Nice bit of squirrel
Looking through the dump to find a snack
"there's fox shit everywhere"
Honestly this channel is so elite who else is doing vids like this . Thank you lad-bible always so so interesting
Vice did similar vids but they kinda lost their way again. I think their best or closest to these type of vids is the Snowden interview.
So this guy spent hours picking up poop-smeared papers people had wiped their butts with... truly the life of a spy is not as glamorous as the movies try to make it seem, lol.
"nowadays we don't know where the enemies are. There all around us😔
Yeah they got brought up in a caravan to riot and steal our election. Somebody in government let it happen. Many somebody's that need to pay for it the old fashioned way.
@@kennymack1427 live with it, trump lost.
@@kennymack1427 dude what? 🤨
Your president didn’t lose bc of some conspiracy or spies lmao
“We’re surrounded by enemy combatants.”
*sir this is Saudi Arabia*
“Surrounded I say!”
I absolutely love this channel man...
Me reading Cold War
My Brain: We got a job to do
Very humble man. Respect
belicov aged well, he changes nationality aswell. MAD
0:30 "Commander in Cheese"
Commander in chief
@@6.............. Yeah I know, but he says commander in cheese
@@6.............. he knkws
@@nyoom7495 no he said "commader in chiefs" thats sounds like cheese
Great interview.
Love these videos!
Just awesome. Such a different time... and he's so right at the end about today's world.
This guy speaks so much sense,we could learn alot ,respect
Unfortunately no one has learned from history & therefore humans are doomed to repeat every damn mistake...
Thanks
i like to see that Black Ops Cold War is getting promoted on Unilad
No one gives a fuck about cod anymore
@@CalSprigley facts
@@CalSprigley Camping D2 with star rounds
Perfect video length 👌
this was awsome
A real british spy finishes his drink before going on the run, you don't know if that's your last pint
Hands down the best thing on TH-cam right now
I’m wearing a Portland Blazers shirt as I read your comment
@@stickydisgust if it's Damian Lillards, you my sir have just one £10000
Excellent content.
You should always assume you’re being listened to, even back then, but especially in his line of work, that would’ve been a given.
What a hard life. Wow. They are the true unsung heroes of civilization
Imagine sitting around a bonfire with some close friends on one cold night and this dude came over to spend some time around the fire!
"Now is more dangerous than it was then" makes me wonder
One word: *WOW*
Wild story! But so interesting to hear.
Brilliant.
Wish i'd joined the forces. My dad was in the RAF and i think working as part of something bigger would've done me good.
These lads had diplomatic protection and plated cars. Few good videos on YT showing them in action. Army Intelligence is different from SIS who work mostly out of the FCO and British Council. Then the NOCs do their own thing.
that last statement is eery... like i almost wanna be extra careful when i- OOO PS5!
This is by far the best PS5 add
The quick drink with the pub owner ;(
Just imagine spies today and what they could do. scary! My freedom that I take for granted
You have no freedom
@@kennymack1427 sadly true
Top man.
"It was clear to us that the phones were all tapped in the British Embassy" well I mean not sure what else u expected tbh
Much more interesting than the game
now the east german soldiers be like: I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THE BUSH xD
Do any of these people interview published any book/memoirs? Great interviews.
Ну, товарищ, спешу сообщить что ваша миссия не завершена, мы обязательно с вами встретимся, должок у вас перед нами.
Да ладно, шучу, красава вы
we sometimes used an old news paper in the 70's, so long as it hadn't been used for fish n chips lol
Legend 💪
Hell yeah! Your man in the car definitely knew his bizzness. I would know, being the no.1 driver in black ops 4 call of duty an all that well played.
Far more interesting than James Bond nonsense. This would make a good series because of how real the fear was. This is real cunning of the person as opposed to letting Q's gadgets save you.
That's tough life.
When I see the Playstation logo I think Cold War Era espionage. Clever
I can't believe the Soviets did not consider using an incinerator!
At least they were used to the sounds of movement in the trash so they wouldn't be suspicious of the sounds
What a fascinating man. The real James Bond.
You NEED to get Simon Mann on here.....We could live half a dozen lives and not get up to half as much mischief as he did :)
The real kingsman
What is awesome is this is from PlayStation! Awesome
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
More spy stuff PLEAAASSSEE?!
Wish the violin part was louder and went on for longer
Crazy to think this is probably all going on now.
The glamorous life of a spy...
Cold War looks so good on ps5 I almost feel like this video is real
Feels like I’m playing call of duty campaign
They seem to have left this out of the James bond films, him climbing through a shit filled rubbish dump for secret documents lol
I did trash pulls as a police detective for years. Nothing worse than maggots crawling up and down your arm and they do bite. If I didn't throw up on the job at least once a week than I wasn't dong my job. On the plus side, led to a lot of good Probable Cause for Search Warrants.
Imagine getting robbed by a spy
British has always had some badass spy’s
That’s so interesting, so we really know what James Bond does lol
Wiping your arse with documents sounds like a fantastic tactic to reduce the chance of someone reading them.
Unlike shredding.
I love the new cod😁
Ok
The bartender probably got killed because of him
My Grandad was in the British Army in the 1960s or so, stationed on the Berlin Wall, given no ammunition (for fear of starting a war) and he did five or so of what he calls "Special missions" (or, "spesh-owhl mish-huns" in his accent). The nature of these missions is unknown to me except for one, the last one, where he infiltrated the DDR and was bringing a high value individual back across when a Grenzschuttsgrupper spotted them and shot the HVI (and a comment he made while visiting us in America makes me think it was a Karabiner-S rifle, as his reaction to an SKS was "Oh I used to get shot at with these!"). He had to be pulled immediately for fear of starting an international incident. I've never seen any sources or other accounts other than this to substantiate it, and even then I'd consider how WWII revolutionized espionage and covert warfare more substantive than this account (not to devalue its importance). My grandad isn't a liar, neither is my dad and his two brothers (British) and neither am I or my two brothers (American) so I believe him despite any concrete lack of proof. He told my dad one day on the phone all about it, and my dad didn't wanna go into all of it, but that's how I know about the HVI who got shot, so there was enough detail for it to be believable.
It's a stretch but I have to wonder if this bloke knows him. Stanley Knight, one of the most admirable men I've ever met (and I'm not afraid to trash talk relatives if they deserve it so I really mean that).
No, he did not 'infiltrate' the DDR. Rather he crossed the border in a military vehicle to do a patrol. And bringing anyone back (as his story claims) was a violation. I actually do not believe this story.
@@boink800 Yeah well I do so quit being a dick and go bother someone else. Be careful when you call people's family members liars because nobody wins.
@@JohnSmith-xv2ob Ok, lying troll. Try writing yet more rubbish.
well qhen your last name is something cool like "Knight", you're destined to do cool shit in your life
@@Dushmann_ he sure lives up to the name
The drivers were recruited from 8 Regt RCT, Munster West Germany ( BAOR ). Vetted and asked if they could make a cup of tea ( Brew ) Plenty of car chases...
Very hard times
From the neck down it's Mrs doubtfire 😅
No one noticed the whistling he makes when he says s
Legend his bloke 100% facts no bull shit
100% legit 👍🏻
Oh this guy again
video length: 9:11
me: oh shit this is serious
He literally took "Taking a shit" very seriously
Balls of steel
There was almost no toilet paper in the GDR
WHAT IS THAT THEME TUNE AT THE BEGINNING?
He’s a real James Bond.
nobody does it better makes me feel sad for the rest
in a rubbage dump, scavenging for makeshift used toilet paper documents... sure beats the hell out of being James bond........
It's a lot less asymmetric again.