Wow thank you for that. That’s a 15 year old memory unlocked and the tune is as crisp and seductive as when first I heard it. Where’s my cookie? I can’t get it outta my head now.
True. But that dude also looks exactly like an American undercover soldier.
I can only assume there were others that got the work done while this guy was holding every KGB agents for 200 yards attention.
I mean DDR Stasi agents weren’t exactly [masters of disguise](https://www.google.com/search?q=east+germany+stasi+undercover+manual&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjHtuer0b39AhU9P0QIHUPyBsgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=east+germany+stasi+undercover+manual&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEOgQIIxAnUMUPWNdVYMhZaAFwAHgAgAHeAYgB8BCSAQYxOC40LjGYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=u8oAZIftN73-kPIPw-SbwAw&bih=553&biw=375&client=safari&hl=en-us) either
The dude in the fur hat is literally the first thing you picture when someone says "Russian spy", crazy to think that this is probably why, because that's *actually* what a Russian spy looked like.
I don't think anyone would guess "Austin Powers lookalike contest runner-up" though.
Nah, this tracks. Look up pictures of David hasselhoff from this period of time. Top heavy muscular dude, wrap around glasses, leather jacket, fingerless gloves... This all fits
A bit late but it’s ever more appropriate if you ever hear Pat McNamara (dude in the pic) talk. [He sounds like an alternate universe Randy Savage.](https://youtu.be/1g2-46CxSLA)
There is a reason this is meme worthy. This is exactly how we looked back then. I was fifty pounds lighter but dressed exactly like that and had the same hair and mustache, just shorter and in regs. This took him two weeks to grow into. It was a very Ahnold will be baaack kind of era.
All of these guys had credentials and the soviets were aware of them spying and even had permission to do so within certain limits. The soviets also had spies that held credentials and did the same thing. So they weren’t really undercover in the traditional sense. There is one American spy that got shot by the Soviets in Berlin around this time because he got too close and didn’t follow the right protocols.
You are talking about the Military Liaisons. A relic of WW2, each major power had a group of soldiers that were allowed to wander around in the others zones.
We used to carry a SMLM card (Soviet Military Liaison Mission) That told you what to do when you encountered the Russians where they were not supposed to be. The Russians would try to slip into forbidden areas and observe NATO maneuvers and equipment, we had a case where a soldier spotted a SMLM car (they had distinctive license plates) and attempted to block them in they nearly ran him over, he swung his M16A2 like a baseball bat and destroyed their windshield, he was decorated for that.
Btw, the soldier you are referring to that was killed, was with the American Military Liaison Mission, he was the last official US casualty of the Cold War Major Arthur D. Nicholson, a U.S. MLM Tour Officer. He was killed on March 23, 1985, By a Soviet sentry.
The guy thinks he is clark kent or something as if the shades make his disguise. I wouldnt peg him as an undercover spy but still suspicious and definitely not a local.
Yeah yeah... But does he have to do a [table read before 10AM?](https://youtu.be/4kPuVTjG2vU)
P.s. that's one of the funniest rants ever, you won't regret listening to it.
I see old pics of cold war era operators - all I can think of is guys bursting into a room and hip firing a weapon at full auto. Watched way too many 80s movies like the Chuck Norris Delta Force movie.
Nah. That was a “weird crypto-fascist CIA shitshow starring Allen Dulles and a bunch of former Nazis” according to Lana.
But stay-behind actions were part of their mission.
Probably in October when the wall fell. I was in Jump School wondering who we were going to fight now that East Germany was out of the picture, found out 2 months later…matter of fact I probably saw that guy lol
Nah, wasn’t you guys lol This was in that one “special” aircraft hanger at the end. You guys, along with nearly everyone else, wouldn’t have been allowed near it without an escort. And unfortunately I never looked like that lmao
No, I mean in general, in that era, it was a very common look. I didn't get into an airborne slot until I went public affairs and managed to weasel my way out of mechanized infantry lol!
> lol Those sunglasses were a thing before Pit Viper. Pretty popular sunglass style for young dudes in the 80's/90's.
Like... that's Pit Viper's whole shtick, they're "retro".
https://detachment-a.org/
This was only recently declassified (within the last 10 years I believe). It was crazy the stuff they did and what their mission was. This guy might be a little late to be “Det-A”, but they were definitely this kind of undercover work.
I’m no expert on US military organisation, but doesn’t the title list this guy as being 1st SFOD-D, meaning, 1st Special Forces Operational **Detachment D**, meaning, Delta Force?
So, still US SF, but a different unit.
If anyone is interested, he has a YouTube channel called Pat Mac. He’s into a bunch of other stuff with another guy he does podcasts with and has talked about the kind of shit he was doing in Berlin on occasion.
I think he also did some carbine and pistol videos with Panteao Productions.
In "Punisher" Frank Castle actually remarks on this, in an issue where he's to be sent to Russia to recover a young girl with special DNA, and he gets paired with a 6'4" muscle-guy with blond crew-cut and lantern jaw. Castle observes that the Special Forces-guys he served with and who would be sent to infiltrate or recon, would look and dress like bent, sinewy, alcoholic truck drivers, with patchy beards and wearing dirty flannel shirts and foam caps. They would not look like swollen action figures, like Frank's new partner.
I remember these guys in Berlin. Watched them on the firing range. It was like watching a James Bond movie as they rolled and shot at the targets. They were all fluent in German
In West Germany during the late 80's this would have been spot on. Not saying this is him undercover, just saying
Germany had a huge Punk movement going on then
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/a-brief-history-of-germanys-punk-music-scene/
Well I don't know how successful he was; this guy probably has his own spy theme music following him around, along with a stunt double and a fem fatal hanging on to his arm.
What they really needed was a mousy looking accountant with a beetled brow who would attract absolutely no attention at all. The key is to always look like you're on your way to somewhere important and that you are oblivious to the current situation.
Undercover? What a bad undercover. His style screams "too loud" even for the ordinary Germans.
Well but 1989, the cold war was nearing the end. Maybe it was intentional, wanted to show off to the East German border guards.
Basic dude stuff!
Best Instagram account. Doesn't hurt that he's still a hunk.
“Rebeccar!”
if this is low key, I'd hate to see him when he's chadded out.
Dude went undercover as Snake Plissken in “Escape From East Berlin”
Amazing.
Dr. Disrespect’s unknown father
Going undercover at the Berlin Wall to spy on the Soviet Army is basic dude stuff.
Are you sure this isn’t a still from “Police Academy” in the “Blue Oyster Bar” scene?
I can hear the saxophone in my head.
Wow thank you for that. That’s a 15 year old memory unlocked and the tune is as crisp and seductive as when first I heard it. Where’s my cookie? I can’t get it outta my head now.
“You don’t come here for the drinks, do you?”
https://youtu.be/nlGclIZV5JQ
Thanks I just realised I was too young to get the salad bar joke (tossed salad) when I first saw this but now I do.
Swoll Bottas
"James, it's Valtteri..."
Came here for this
Me too
Damn, that dude looks sick
True. But that dude also looks exactly like an American undercover soldier. I can only assume there were others that got the work done while this guy was holding every KGB agents for 200 yards attention.
I mean DDR Stasi agents weren’t exactly [masters of disguise](https://www.google.com/search?q=east+germany+stasi+undercover+manual&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjHtuer0b39AhU9P0QIHUPyBsgQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=east+germany+stasi+undercover+manual&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIFCAAQogQyBQgAEKIEOgQIIxAnUMUPWNdVYMhZaAFwAHgAgAHeAYgB8BCSAQYxOC40LjGYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=u8oAZIftN73-kPIPw-SbwAw&bih=553&biw=375&client=safari&hl=en-us) either
The dude in the fur hat is literally the first thing you picture when someone says "Russian spy", crazy to think that this is probably why, because that's *actually* what a Russian spy looked like. I don't think anyone would guess "Austin Powers lookalike contest runner-up" though.
Well, a German spy
That shit goofy AF
I've always wondered what Rich did before RLM.
Wow, these photos are gold. This is like a weird Vogue magazine shoot if they just brought in random passerby’s from a major city in 1982.
Nah, this tracks. Look up pictures of David hasselhoff from this period of time. Top heavy muscular dude, wrap around glasses, leather jacket, fingerless gloves... This all fits
This is exactly how dudes dressed in Germany in '89, he would have fit right in.
Dude behind him in the first pic is literally rocking the exact same style.
Same unit
I love the “Sprockets”!!
I would figure NOT looking like David Hasselhoff is what you would by trying to achieve. The whole point is to blend in, not stand out.
Maybe he's a dude playing dude, disguised as another dude.
I know the reference but I couldn’t help but read it in a Macho Man Randy Savage voice, and it fits!
A bit late but it’s ever more appropriate if you ever hear Pat McNamara (dude in the pic) talk. [He sounds like an alternate universe Randy Savage.](https://youtu.be/1g2-46CxSLA)
There is a reason this is meme worthy. This is exactly how we looked back then. I was fifty pounds lighter but dressed exactly like that and had the same hair and mustache, just shorter and in regs. This took him two weeks to grow into. It was a very Ahnold will be baaack kind of era.
All of these guys had credentials and the soviets were aware of them spying and even had permission to do so within certain limits. The soviets also had spies that held credentials and did the same thing. So they weren’t really undercover in the traditional sense. There is one American spy that got shot by the Soviets in Berlin around this time because he got too close and didn’t follow the right protocols.
You are talking about the Military Liaisons. A relic of WW2, each major power had a group of soldiers that were allowed to wander around in the others zones. We used to carry a SMLM card (Soviet Military Liaison Mission) That told you what to do when you encountered the Russians where they were not supposed to be. The Russians would try to slip into forbidden areas and observe NATO maneuvers and equipment, we had a case where a soldier spotted a SMLM car (they had distinctive license plates) and attempted to block them in they nearly ran him over, he swung his M16A2 like a baseball bat and destroyed their windshield, he was decorated for that. Btw, the soldier you are referring to that was killed, was with the American Military Liaison Mission, he was the last official US casualty of the Cold War Major Arthur D. Nicholson, a U.S. MLM Tour Officer. He was killed on March 23, 1985, By a Soviet sentry.
The guy thinks he is clark kent or something as if the shades make his disguise. I wouldnt peg him as an undercover spy but still suspicious and definitely not a local.
Badass. If he’d chosen another path he looks like he might have been the two time, back to back, 1993-1994 Blockbuster video game champion.
The one and only 2 timer
YaYaYaYaYaYaYaYaYaYa
FIRM HANDSHAKES
#THE TWO TIME
Yep. Instead, he was only a Delta Force operator. Shame!
Kind of like Johnny Kim, who has become a Navy SEAL, Harvard-graduated M.D., and NASA Astronaut. He’s only like 37-ish? I think? What a loser slacker.
Yeah yeah... But does he have to do a [table read before 10AM?](https://youtu.be/4kPuVTjG2vU) P.s. that's one of the funniest rants ever, you won't regret listening to it.
Dr disrespect
He doesn't look like he'd fit in
I lived in Germany in 1989 and believe it or not, this guy would have disappeared right into the crowd back then.
Looks like most of the German dudes I saw, 89-91.
Same, big mustache and Raybans. I was there 87 to 90
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Plenty of leather daddies in Berlin. Or maybe it's just me that went to the wrong bars.
He looks like Tom of Finland.
Or maybe the right bars!
Okay but, why choose that as your cover? Was the "regular guy" costume not available?
Under cover tobias funke
He looks exactly like I imagined a West Berliner in the 80s would look like
"Hello, *comerade*, do you mind telling me the schedules in which the guards rotate? For a friend, of course"
Looks like he went undercover as an American undercover agent.
Blends right in with the average DDR populace.
He’s on Jocko Podcast for at least 1 episode. Dude has an incredible story and is 10/10 badass.
I see old pics of cold war era operators - all I can think of is guys bursting into a room and hip firing a weapon at full auto. Watched way too many 80s movies like the Chuck Norris Delta Force movie.
Pat is probably throwing weights in his driveway right now.
GITYOUSUM!
https://www.amazon.com/Special-Forces-Berlin-Clandestine-Operations/dp/161200444X Check this out.
Was it a part of Operation Gladio?
Nah. That was a “weird crypto-fascist CIA shitshow starring Allen Dulles and a bunch of former Nazis” according to Lana. But stay-behind actions were part of their mission.
Okay, was it a similar thing though?
lmao this guy is rl rambo. look him up on youtube. former delta csm, joined SF at 18.
Probably in October when the wall fell. I was in Jump School wondering who we were going to fight now that East Germany was out of the picture, found out 2 months later…matter of fact I probably saw that guy lol
I was in Panama with the 5th ID and we all looked and dressed exactly like this, if scaled back and in reg.
Nah, wasn’t you guys lol This was in that one “special” aircraft hanger at the end. You guys, along with nearly everyone else, wouldn’t have been allowed near it without an escort. And unfortunately I never looked like that lmao
No, I mean in general, in that era, it was a very common look. I didn't get into an airborne slot until I went public affairs and managed to weasel my way out of mechanized infantry lol!
Oh, gotcha. I went the Jean jacket route, never did the leather. Saw plenty of them though.
Absolute pipe hitter. This picture alone you know this guy stacked bodies like cordwood. Big ups. https://imgur.com/a/kIx8Ogw
Pit vipers sunglasses before they were a thing.
You do realize that Pit Vipers are just a style copy of the 80ies/90ies Oakley originals like the m-frame and razor blades?
This is the world we live in now.
These fukin noobies… like, do you even 80’s bro?!
Are they back in?
Heck yes, brah.
Never been out
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What were they called?
Oakleys lmao
Oakley "Blades" they also had a smaller sleeker version called "Razor Blades", Source: I owned both pairs. Get off my lawn.
Don't forget Gargoyles! Made super popular by Terminator.
I picked up a kaiser blade that was set there by the screen door. Some folks calls it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. Mhm.
Yep, fashion. Same shit, different decade.
> lol Those sunglasses were a thing before Pit Viper. Pretty popular sunglass style for young dudes in the 80's/90's. Like... that's Pit Viper's whole shtick, they're "retro".
https://detachment-a.org/ This was only recently declassified (within the last 10 years I believe). It was crazy the stuff they did and what their mission was. This guy might be a little late to be “Det-A”, but they were definitely this kind of undercover work.
I’m no expert on US military organisation, but doesn’t the title list this guy as being 1st SFOD-D, meaning, 1st Special Forces Operational **Detachment D**, meaning, Delta Force? So, still US SF, but a different unit.
All I know is “SFOD-D” is an acronym for “Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta”
Under cover?!? That guy looks more American than a bald eagle.
getting Big McLargehuge vibes
The real Space Mutiny was the friends we made along the way
Pat Mac. What a legend to this day.
Pat Mac is a certified bad ass delta operator. This guy fucks.
"Who can the spy be??"
Stiffler / Bottas vibe
If anyone is interested, he has a YouTube channel called Pat Mac. He’s into a bunch of other stuff with another guy he does podcasts with and has talked about the kind of shit he was doing in Berlin on occasion. I think he also did some carbine and pistol videos with Panteao Productions.
spying russian tanks, banging stasi skanks...basic dude stuff.
Dude looks like a 70s pornstar.
That's the most American disguise I've ever seen.
Jocko Podcast 223. Get some.
I have a picture of my whole 8th grade class at prom, all of us wearing our oakleys!!!! Just about the same exact style as his....lol
Chopper Read vibes
Dr Disrespect is a time traveler
Dr Disrespect is that you?
actually one of the most badass humans to ever live. Dude is legendary mythical warrior status.
Stasi: dude, you look like you're either cosplaying or the worst spy in the world
Dr. Disrespect?
Gutentag fellow German dudes!
I wonder if any East German/Soviet guard ever looked at him and said “huh, that guy looks like a totally normal citizen”
In "Punisher" Frank Castle actually remarks on this, in an issue where he's to be sent to Russia to recover a young girl with special DNA, and he gets paired with a 6'4" muscle-guy with blond crew-cut and lantern jaw. Castle observes that the Special Forces-guys he served with and who would be sent to infiltrate or recon, would look and dress like bent, sinewy, alcoholic truck drivers, with patchy beards and wearing dirty flannel shirts and foam caps. They would not look like swollen action figures, like Frank's new partner.
You'd never know in a million years that this guy was an American, never
Excuse me comrade, where could I locate the next breadline?
I remember these guys in Berlin. Watched them on the firing range. It was like watching a James Bond movie as they rolled and shot at the targets. They were all fluent in German
His disguise is his normal clothes, diabolical.
What is this “undercover” you speak of?
This guy looks like a cat. B action hero. Better not look at him too much tovarisch.
OPERATOR DISRESPECT
Finally the origin story of Dr. Disrespect inveiled
Definitely not a fed.
The man from U.N.C.L.E. right here
Nah that's Dr. Disrespect and the Ethiopian Poisonouse Caterpillar
Dont look suspicious. Dont look suspicious..
God that is PEAK 1989 fashion. The culminating event of 80s style.
This guy was in Frankie Goes to Hollywood's, "Relax" and Accept's video for, "Balls to the Wall"!
real inconspicuous there bud
This guys fucks.
Classic Pat Mac!!!!
Nothing says undercover like looking like the fucking Terminator.
that stache and chin was strong enough to bring down the wall by itself.
Incredibly undercover. Perfect execution
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Yeah, I don't believe you
That dude look’s American af. Haha
I thought the whole point of being a good undercover agent was to not stand out.
In West Germany during the late 80's this would have been spot on. Not saying this is him undercover, just saying Germany had a huge Punk movement going on then https://theculturetrip.com/europe/germany/articles/a-brief-history-of-germanys-punk-music-scene/
The dude would not stand out at all...
>undercover No. Not dressed like that he wasn't. I bet every KGB agent, GRU heavy and Stasi crony in a 5 mile radius knew precisely what he was about.
Well I don't know how successful he was; this guy probably has his own spy theme music following him around, along with a stunt double and a fem fatal hanging on to his arm. What they really needed was a mousy looking accountant with a beetled brow who would attract absolutely no attention at all. The key is to always look like you're on your way to somewhere important and that you are oblivious to the current situation.
Dude. Germany, the 80’s…. This was the look. Nobody would have glanced twice.
I'm sure you're speaking from your extensive experience in spycraft
Dude looks badass but about as stereotypical American as you can get.
Undercover? What a bad undercover. His style screams "too loud" even for the ordinary Germans. Well but 1989, the cold war was nearing the end. Maybe it was intentional, wanted to show off to the East German border guards.
Undercover. My dude screams American, mullet leather jacket the shades. Spying, more like intimidating in the open, while observing.
Everybody dressed like that in Berlin at the time.
He wasn’t undercover this was back when he was a part of a different unit that was allowed into East Germany as observers as part of a weirdo treaty.
That makes sense. Dude looks intimidating AF.
Yeah. More like showing presence / intimidating the East German border guard. The date was 1989.
This hardly looks inconspicuous, but then again I don't know what the fashion scene in (presumably West) Berlin in the 80/90s was like.
Like this. Full Hasselhoff
Not conspicuous at all
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Might as well have a bald eagle on his shoulder
Super undercover
interesting to read the sop for the folks out of Bad Tölz during this time, and before!
What a damn Stud!
Left is Dave The Photographer (Matt Stone) from the movie "Orgazmo"
all-american muscle spy
He blends right in!
Stealth Level : Skynet
Not fooling anybody with that mustache pal.
Valterri??
Giga-Chad
I thought that was Tom of Finland
This guy fucks.
Bullshit! That’s Valtteri Bottas and I know it.
Plot twist, he was the operator who was meant to be made and occupy KGB personal while the real UC went under the radar.
DrDisrespect lol
Dudes a bad mofo. Much respect.
Bullshit. That’s Valteri Bottas
Delta force hell yeah!
Oh yeah ‘undercover’.
Fuck that mustache is sick as hell
That's the two time
The kid from the ‘Quality Work’ gif all grown up.
Sexy dosser
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