Posted on 04/26/2025 11:25:26 AM PDT by Angelino97
Pictures show the CIA deputy director's son who - unbeknownst to his mother and father - was fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Michael Gloss, 21, was killed in the war in April last year, but details of the story have only emerged now after an investigation by Russian independent news outlet iStories.
Photos showing him wearing camouflage and hanging out with soldiers have emerged.
His mother, Julianne Gallina Gloss, is the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy director for digital innovation.
His father, Larry Gloss, is a US Navy veteran who participated in Operation Desert Storm and the Iraq War.
In the wake of his son's death, Larry described him to the Washington Post as a 'peacenik' who 'wouldn't hurt a flea.'
'With his noble heart and warrior spirit, Michael forged his own hero's path when he tragically died in Eastern Europe on April 4, 2024,' his family wrote in an obituary that did not mention he was in the Russian army.
They found out their son died in June and held a funeral for him in December, according to The Washington Post. However, his involvement in the Russian military was not revealed until Friday when iStories published a story.
The CIA said Gallina and her family 'suffered an unimaginable personal tragedy in the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with mental health issues, died while fighting in the conflict in Ukraine.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
She might by lying or telling the truth -- but either case is worrisome.
fighting for… or infiltrated
The article paints him as a hippie dippy type. It also references his "mental health" issues.
Evidently they weren’t that close. Her son died in April 2024. Another observation is that the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.
April 4, 2024
Obviously, the DD is very good at coverups. I wonder what other “digital innovations” she did for SloJo’s administration.
Being in charge of “digital innovation” reads like a DEI position. Could be in charge of implementing the latest version of Word at a high salary in order to balance the hiring. Waste of payroll doesn’t bother the feds.
He really outta be more careful.
Nothing adds up here. Story makes no sense at all.
I went to High School in Mclean VA 67-71. Mclean VA is home to the CIA. A lot of kids in the HS were progeny of the CIA. Our class had one field trip to Moscow. (I didn’t go as I was busy with the wrestling team.) We were taught to think global and act local. The public school was very internationalist even back then. The people from my HS class of 71 are majority liberal. They pretty much go with whatever the democrat party says even though today’s democrat party would have been an abomination to them in their teens and 20’s. they are just not self aware. Those are the successful ones. There were plenty of burnouts.
3rd possiblity: press-ganged.
That’s what I thought.
So why does an American boy decide to fight and die for Russia?
“Our class had one field trip to Moscow.”
That is notable as the Cold War was weel underway. I get the impression that communists were well represented in the CIA. What do you think?
Some splashback I see. That is very interesting, comrade CIA Deputy Director.
Family estrangement is nothing new.
Why? Doesn't the fact that he suffered from mental health issues and had stopped taking his medications, at least give you one clue?
I’m thinking any guy with a mental illness on the streets of Moscow (or in Jail) is subject to being swept up in Putin’s Draft.
No. I don’t think so. It was just vision of the world that was not nationalist. It was internationalist. Think global. Act local. We are the world. We are the children. or John Lennons Imagine as in “Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” Or as they say world peas.
Steely Dan's counter to Lennon's "Imagine" was "Only a Fool Would Believe". :)
A foreigner with mental health issues would more likely be deported.
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