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NBT sports is people people like

three-time over the gold medal winner

Mickey almond we're proud to have Mickey

almond as the newest member of the nvt

sports team NBT is the first American

television network to cover the pre

Olympic track and field Games in Moscow

Mickey almond knows the world of

international athletics from the inside

joining him in the entire nvt sports

team at the games in Moscow

I'm running you were runnin I hear an

answer

I am runner

come on come with us comrade

you stir the shit out of me oh why

didn't you stop I am an American and

Americans don't give up you're on quite

well for an American speak English

fucking a

damn look at this how much did you pay

for that doctor huh

Russian workmanship the only thing that

matters is to meet the word quota like

American television okay take care

Thanks

these are mill da spasiba good please

shine torching two carburetor sure

closer please I am a scientist I have a

story that I must get to the West if you

help me get a story to Western media I

hope you win Nobel Prize are you

interested

why are you telling us it should I tell

nobody

yeah I went to jail come on Jay look

Mickey I know you think you're some

all-american goddamn hero but this is

real life that you're screwing around

with questions catching the network will

have my ass for breakfast hey that's

very sentimental of you Tom listen our

own government doesn't even want us here

they told us it's not up to us to

declare peace but we went ahead anyway

and spent millions to buy the rights all

right a capitalist on one side the KGB

on the other which door will Jack

Armstrong step line Lee through what if

he's telling the truth a truth yeah Oh

truth enters the picture huh that what

you really care about Mickey the truth

what if he's telling the truth who gives

a shit stay away from it

we're the naked lady paintings they're

supposed to have naked lady why didn't

you tell me about this before look I

don't want a lecture should I do it or

not really I really like you how do I do

it what about Matt oh it doesn't have to

involve the network do you know it you

won three gold medals the network is

giving you a chance to capitalize on

that everything you do affects all of us

look I'm sorry to be something Hey

that's why I married you

Frank what I mean is even lucky we've

lived in a free country all our lives

these people haven't sounds corny it's

Kansas and all what do you think I

should do I think it ought to be real

sure why you want to do

but I love you for wanting to

I don't know I don't know should be

trying this be a shame for you to lose

such a chance let's say I do to take it

out I get caught what can they do to me

you're an American

they won't bother you

nice Pete may I speak please in a moment

if you please in a moment

yes how can I be of service to you I'd

like to call my embassy I was told I'd

be able to call my embassy I'm an

American citizen I'm gonna see which two

well the American Embassy I've done

nothing wrong

you are Michael yes father's name yeah

I'd like to call the American Embassy

please you guys have to go in there for

a while now you have to sign this form

my name is Bukowski hi I get you

something it's not like an envelope or

even like English it is really special

you know why we start with a very strong

tea essence it is a very very black it's

cold and be pouring - it really boiling

scalding water it is so hot this is a

confession saying I'm a spy for the CIA

no way I'm gonna sign this remember to

blow it is so hot

forgive me no I don't want anymore

I want to call the American Embassy now

but of course in a moment but first my

sign this little formality and then make

all your embassy

you'll be free to go look I'm a guest of

your country I'm one of the key people

in producing the coverage of your

Spartacus which is something your

government is very interested in you

better check and find out who I am when

my network finds out I'm here there's

gonna be hell to pay

I don't think you realize the power in

America such large abstract figures may

I be quite frank with you I wish you

would

you'll be convicted as a spy no matter

what whether you sign to do with it you

mustn't think in those terms there will

be many journalists in Moscow for these

games

many many athletes many tourists fourth

is a big thing a very big thing and all

of these people will be exploited by bad

people parasites in Moscow who are the

velum slanders against Soviet government

who may even want to smuggle some

secrets to the best so to protect

ourselves he must give a strong warning

to these journalists and to the students

that they shouldn't talk to such people

they should even be afraid to talk to

such people and I believe to be such a

warning I mean I was set up

this is American gangster movie talk you

may be really deserves to believe such

things I have enough to convict you know

pictures of you meetings with conclusive

and tape recordings of what he told you

I have to call the American Embassy

please if you sign the confession you

will be deported to USA if you don't

sign the confession then we cannot admit

that we made a mistake so you will be

convicted and sent to prison so I

believe it is better for you to sign

I can't make a decision like that

without speaking some body from the

embassy or or my networker of course you

need time very good then I shall invite

you bad and be sure to some or team and

we shall see in the meantime they'll

give you a room but you may think things

over I will show you the way goodbye

your silent document no and call to your

oh I want to call the American Embassy I

want to call the American Embassy

I don't understand you sign the document

will be deported to us is that so

variable I know many people would like

to be deported to USA can't you shit but

my confession you'd be doing it so fuck

you go to your room

suicide today if you blow me so I have

been wrong about you

we call him let me see I have your

strong I servant you it's not a way to

work with you this punishment cell it

makes you even stronger I think Peter it

was a mistake they will take you to the

bath so that you can clean yourself then

meet with your back

but wife out there yet let's divide

that's what they told me

my assignment was to seek out a Russian

scientist we were interested in in

blackmail him into betraying his country

handing over state secrets that's right

you felt no shame in using an

international sporting event to further

your nefarious aims no finally how was

your treatment at the hands of the

Soviet Union

very fair you have any complaints of the

treatment you've received

I do not what are your feelings now I'm

ashamed what I've done for I was forced

to do forced to by my government in 15

minutes is that soon enough

no you'll be taken straight to the

airport of course you will deny

everything wants you back in the United

States in fact that's what we want you

to do oh yeah why some of your

countrymen will believe you then they

don't know that even though we've done

nothing we could do with you as we

pleased

it is the warning to the journalists of

which we spoke others will believe that

you media spy and that they were blamed

CIA for doing this terrible thing during

the games the bottom line is you say

it's all profit

it's time for you to go I hope you don't

think too harshly on me we're all caught

between the great powers

take a train to the airport ice we go to

the airport to be deported

I'm not supposed to be I'm supposed to

be at the airport not supposed to be

here

this is your friend you want to live you

have to learn it I'm not supposed to be

here I'm supposed to be taken to the

airplane not here last name you answer

with first name then here you were born

then crime then sentence look I'm

supposed to be deported 1954 yeah

article 78 spinner sentence was ten

years

what

sentence was 10 years

Oh

why come on come on come on

he's very salty and then the guard plays

game either he doesn't give you water

and you crazy with thirst or he takes a

lot to water but doesn't take it as

toilet you piss in your pants eat bread

forget fish

take a piss let me out of here open the

door

metro noise it makes them laugh yeah

what am I supposed to do me if you're

not gonna roll on me child

we have been prison as longer than they

have been god

will you bake now you're brave

there's afraid as we are they're trapped

in there just like us I say no

I was sitting there so now you can stand

you know the story of the folks in the

dog no good sit down please

once there was a dog who says Oh

everybody kicks me they treat me like a

dog and then one day he meets a wise old

Fox and the Fox says why are you so

miserable and the dog says and the Fox

is of course they treat you like a dog

the first thing you do when you see

somebody new in the forest you sniffing

minute of course they treat you like a

dog the dog says well now what should I

do

and the Fox said throw out your chest

and walk proud through the forest like a

man and when you meet somebody new in

the forest don't go sniff him in the

book you walk straight up to him next

morning

Oh throws out his chest walks Brown the

first animal he sees he walks straight

up to the lion and says now the lion

thing say yeah I think he's crazy he's

got rabies so he runs away and so it

goes through the whole thing

every animal he meets he barks at an

animal and the dog feels so nice and

then he sees the wiser and he goes

straight up to the Fox and shouts loud

the wise old folks just looks at him and

says listen

like me you can still sniffing

my wife Irina

she was professor also like me I tried

to get academic freedom that they crush

ugly and I have to go to Israel so they

kick us out of university I try to take

small flame aboard them but they catch

me send me to camp sentence for five

years I try to escape the catch me again

give me ten year sentence I attacked the

card

understimate course 10 is here five

years their retention

his orders don't know summer Christine's

that meant there in English he is full

Cossack he wants to be Cossack not

Soviet he loves they want him to work on

foreign he refused so they said one can

many hours

refusing to work on a farm and disorient

activity for being good for the interest

particle 70 but you must watch out for

common criminal him he is common

criminal

you helped me in camp no you would be in

foreign section of the camp we will be

in the Russian section foreign section

is much better much better it's like in

cold hard work

you will need to bribe the guard to give

you some food from your packages through

fence we get packages why do we become

your friend you are American when you

get the camp you get many packages good

ones from America and we are your

friends

and you smuggle some events for the

fence to us if you were lucky you go

through easy can you're not if you're

not lucky

you better get lucky

can you believe a mother he's coming

home tomorrow yes well they have it all

arranged a hero's welcome how about that

no it's even bigger than that that was

for an athlete this is for a year oh yes

okay I'll call you tomorrow

I love you too right

this was on your dream

don't let them stick your toes they

might find something they like

Stallman

what's he saying he says he knows will

be able going and the man is not a

mountain does that mean it is a saying

man pains never meet men or wisdom one

thing you're crystal wanted things to

explain results only

you go too far in zone we go to Russian

zone we will try to help one another but

here there are no Russians or Americans

there only prisoners like athletes yes

remember the guards also have strict

rules they cannot shoot you for no

reason so we get you to do something

forbidden they steal something of yours

then throw it away from you when you go

to get it to shoot you so you were

trying to escape

they used prisons to kill one another

the best is to be careful never trust

anyone and don't sniff you know

dear Susan I love you and I miss you

terribly I write you letters to remind

me who I am and I've had another life

outside the gulag someday we'll have it

again

the Russians built the camp at the

bottom of an old limestone quarry so no

one could escape there's a fence sort of

no-man's land on the middle of the camp

on the side with all the foreign

prisoners across the fence of the

Russian prisoners that's the hard labour

camp chopping down trees and loading

boxcar they're building a new workers

city for so-called freed prisoners you

spend the rest of their life and

internal exile sometimes at night you

screams from the inside and I think

about my friends over there happiest

time receive our packages from the

outside once a month or so like kids at

a circus on my mind please include lots

of cigarettes in what you send they like

money

the prisoners here from all over the

world European South American Chinese

dope were the drinks shoot Finnish was

even a group of former generals who were

all a bunch of spy chiefs at one time or

another one's a pole once from

Czechoslovakia Hungarian is even an

Englishman the real pain in the end it

was a spy chief in West Berlin now

they're all sticky gloves

Stoller's stuff yeah better I get them

before somebody else he's not even Dead

Yet

just wait till you bring in a few years

don't breed anything about this in the

morning with any luck I'll get his

breakfast ready

Oh cold out there let's play cards my

god I'm gonna play cards now if Nero

fiddled at least we can do is to play

little acey-deucey when the Russians

kill each other I told you I had friends

over there

I don't be such a bore it is to try such

a prick is that why God loved the

Americans with that incessant

lies why shouldn't they want to make a

break I'll tell you why because this is

the gulag you cretin

this isn't just one little camp you know

this is a thousand miles of nothing but

camps so what if they trust a wire so

come to your camps can you grasp that

one almond o country of the camps for a

break to succeed you'd have to start it

a thousand kilometers away from here and

then you'd have to cross ice in the

winter forth to hunger and swamps in the

summer not to mention the problem of

food that's no problem just take along a

sandwich you know what the sandwiches

don't drop let's just play wait a minute

look we've got a new boy here and it's

time he knew the facts a sandwich is

when two prisoners take along a third

weaker prisoner on an escape someone

they reckon can last maybe one or two

days and then die and when he does

they eat him

cards oh you want to play cards now yes

he wants to play cards you actually

think you're gonna get out of here don't

you huh don't you you probably think

that John Wayne's gonna come charging

through here with the cavalry Uncle Sam

to the rescue I am innocent

I mean you're the fucking spy not me

precisely I am a spy I've been given a

sentence and I'll serve it all they'll

exchange me for some Soviet spy but you

the Soviets are afraid that if you get

out your government will use your case

to get bigger CIA and military budgets

which is something that the solids

definitely do not want you're caught by

the balls in a power struggle you think

the United States government your case

shows the American people just how weak

and ineffective your government really

is let's say you're right you think my

wife is gonna sit around for that she's

gonna raise so much hell something's

gonna get done oh yes well the Russians

certainly don't want her creating a

disturbance making you a cause celeb you

know what'll happen if she does she'll

get a telegram saying that the USSR

regrets to inform her that her spy

husband has died of natural causes and

then you will vanish into Siberia in a

mine or laying a pipeline whatever they

need your body full of shit you know my

friend your wife is very prompt and

sending you your packages on the day

that they stop that's the day she's got

the wife one doesn't send packages to

cops

let's play cards

it's you to play Mickey

hey don't push there's plenty more where

they came from I got friends in there

prick you don't stop causing trouble

darlin

they'll transfer you there

knock on credit me on tour over fuckin

ride

no she should have to like it

this particular

so gonna say MOBA console

first get your hands off me total horse

pulled tough to pre back right you don't

plug it wait on the ones that really do

the work have to pay for it don't be

fool you end up in punishments come on

Elmen the point of this exercise is to

stay alive what do you think you're

alive you steal from the dead you fuck

over other prisoners where's your

fucking dignity dignities a foster go

look I'm just trying to help you survive

here the sooner you accept the fact that

you're gonna be here for a very long

time the better off you'll be

that's a crock of shit you just gave up

this makes me think of Susan's little

hands right if you know actually

touching this paper I love her hands

small and feminine like a china doll

my wife has big hands and big feet

I love them too

never shoot yet pursue can still do

shooting competing you facilitate it on

the list I got a package vamp assume kin

yet slowly she look in the pile over

there I never got a package from my

I think we have a musical number from

America my friend Nicky

[Applause]

okay you know if you're so good today

right I make magic trick magic trick my

magic box and sometimes I need some help

please

what's this oh this is the very bad man

he makes guns and bombs yeah you stay in

there okay so we have three naughty

people in prison okay

teaching teaching

I want to know how you did the trick the

box

Magic Man don't tell a secret I'm not

playing games tea chick

tell me how the box works

the Train is the only way out the tracks

don't come to this part of the camp they

stop in the Russians and is there food

in your stomach are you wrong because

your mind still work

does your name still work these are

victories

what an awful smell

couldn't you have sent a little bit

further away from the latrine you know

part of my training was learning how to

deal with pain I didn't think I'd ever

need to use it I shouldn't really be I'd

even have gone out on that job had a

career as an intelligent to take the

crap out of the frontline cold warrior I

just bolster up my sagging self-esteem

studied Russian you want from me what

the fuck you want from me I want to go I

don't want to die

would you say six months in the Russian

zone secretions like Paddington I have

another style

stay on let's do my stuff

fucking cold

gee

I didn't even know if you guys were

alive or not you are idiot don't talk to

me you have a nice soft place in foreign

zone then you act like it either

whistling blast off and get sent over

here you think favored two famous you

and one for your friend to get into my

barracks I don't like the old famous

look we came over here on purpose

something I want to talk to you all

about friends six months got them to

send you to the Russian zone because you

want to make escape it's right now you

won't hear my idea or not they're going

to be in a long time might as well get

it over with do you even start an escape

you have to get at least a thousand

kilometres from here right well this and

your work during winter time is

unloading boxcars concrete blocks cement

in construction what happens when you've

finished unloading a whole train what's

that make escape on plane just tell us

what happens the guards check inside

each box to make sure it's really empty

then he closes the boxcar and locks it

then they check the bottom of the whole

train and then then and only then do

they let the train go so there's no way

you can get on under train he's not

talking about getting on under a train

look inside the box

it's empty right so

stick this inside

now let's say this is the boxcar and

that paper is the five of us the guard

has to come around and check the boxcar

to make sure it's empty right check make

sure it's empty

empty false wall he's good he's very

good

I don't work are you talking about a

course it'll work they get you with the

fines

they count you when you leave the camp

to go to work a guard counts five men

makes mark then an extra five men and so

on and so if they are missing one

prisoner

you sure you make it sound so simple

like like your ABC there are so many

details complexities just learn to live

why die why not what I will go you and I

McHale we will make diversity look what

God he was on the train yes a man is not

a monk

right

I love this collection

that was fast

Russian trialing camp is very quick what

did they give you nice present it's 15

years yeah that's it yet

show me a little magic box again McHale

never gonna work you've got to get him

out of here without him seeing why

without them sink

you got rookeries Plinko second trustee

to communist bastard

you better get something to eat

Nikki I will be the diversion how's that

I will release the folks she'll be on

the train no I cannot go on this break

I'd say this is gonna work I promise you

that yes it's a good plan and well even

if it works you would have to jump from

the Train you will have to walk one week

maybe more through the ice before you

get across but you've done it before

good luck good luck Cossack maybe we

meet again maybe men are not mountains

yes

well

smash the border that way

you sure I hope so

you

you

Oh

it's not democratic

Jharna beaucoup de dah guru for ski for

ruski you're not Russian no I'm not

Russian we're no Asians you're in Norway

this fence is the border that's Russia

over there

who are you what's your name

Kenneth Barrington English Mickey Mickey

almond USA American

welcome to Norway

mr. album mr. Barrington welcome back to

the free world

I'm Robert Kate Pierson of the American

Embassy here in Oslo how'd you do yes my

wife's outside yes she is but if I could

just delay you for two minutes it would

go a lot more smoothly well there's a

lot of press out there Mickey I'm here

to take you to Washington the president

will present you with the medal in the

Rose Garden tomorrow listen to me the

president has been telling the American

public just how brutal the Russians are

you are living proof you can help him

get that message out before November

get the fuck up Mickey Mickey you have a

responsibility to show the world

I'm just glad to be home THANK YOU

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