How Did a Jewish Pro Baseball Player Become a CIA Spy? | Unpacked

Moe Berg, the child of Jewish immigrants, grew up to become a pro-baseball player and a Nazi-hunting spy. As a child, he excelled at sports, academics, languages, and even had a photographic memory. After playing for both the White Sox and the Red Sox, Moe Berg began working for the OSS, which would ultimately become the CIA.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:28 Childhood
01:00 The Major Leagues
01:45 The Japan tour
02:29 After the Major Leagues
02:53 The OSS (the CIA)
04:00 Nazi hunter
05:24 Life after WW2
06:53 After his death
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Image and footage credits:
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
Matt Gleason
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Executive Producer:
- Barry Skolnick
Co-Executive Producer:
- Shmuel Katz
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Translation credits:
Portuguese: Saymon Pires, www.livrariasafra.com.br, @safralivraria
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Thank you for telling us about the life of Moe Berg - a fascinating man !

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Wow how do you even find this stuff

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It is known.

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It's our job!

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This is highly known in the sports card world and it isn't the CIA it was the precursor to it

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Moe Berg was also a lawyer at the NYC law firm my father, also Jewish, later joined.

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What a remarkable man.

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Watch the movie “The Catcher Was A Spy”. Paul Rudd was the star.

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Thank you for bringing this piece of Jewish history to us. Mr. Berg was clearly a genius and someone I will not soon forget.

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Totally awesome!

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Is there a movie about him?

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[@jimdellavecchia4594]

I heard about him 30 yrs ago and am still super impressed.
Whenever I hear "Moe" I think of the Three Stooges!!

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Same! Now we have another "Moe" to add to our list ;)

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Take that Soccer !

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Look into Harry Chozen if youre gonna do another video on a jewish ballplayer, great story

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No wonder the Red Sox had a curse for 86 years! They couldn't hire actual baseball players until 2004.

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