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The strange life of the son of an American CIA officer who died fighting alongside the Russians

2025-04-25 19:45:11Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The strange life of the son of an American CIA officer who died fighting
Michael Gloss

A 21-year-old who died fighting for the Russian army in Ukraine has been identified as the son of a senior CIA official.

Michael Gloss was killed on the front lines in the eastern Donetsk region in April last year, reported Important Stories, a Russian investigative media outlet.

He was the son of Juliane Gallina, the CIA's deputy director for digital innovation, and Larry Gloss, a U.S. Navy veteran who participated in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War in the early 1990s.

In 2021, Michael Gloss enrolled at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, a liberal arts college known for encouraging students to interact with nature. The following year, he was stopped by police at a climate protest in Washington, D.C.

On social media and in online conversations with members of the Rainbow Family, a countercultural group with roots in 1970s activism, Gloss expressed his disgust with America.

"When I finally understood how the American political system works, I realized that violence is an integral part of it," he wrote on Telegram.

On Instagram, he posted a photo of himself raising his middle finger towards the U.S. Capitol. In another post, he showed the American flag burning.

His acquaintances said he was angered by Israel's war in Gaza and had become an avid consumer of conspiracy theories.

According to Important Stories, he told a friend that Western hegemony was fading and that the future would be a “multipolar world” dominated by the BRICS nations, a line popularized by Russian propaganda. BRICS is an intergovernmental grouping that includes Russia, India, China, Iran, and several other countries.

Before joining the Russian army, the long-haired activist traveled across Europe and Turkey, sometimes dressed in a long medieval robe and carrying a wooden staff.

In April 2023, he traveled to Israel to visit “ecological villages.” Authorities confiscated his personal belongings and deported him.

In Turkey, calling himself Hamza, he joined the relief effort after the earthquake in the Hatay region. He gained a reputation as a quirky nature lover in the Turkish border town of Kiyikoy, at one point being filmed putting abandoned birds in a cardboard box.

Gloss bought a long red dress at a Turkish clothing store. A friend, Gamze, told Important Stories that while in Turkey, Gloss bought all the bread at a bakery and distributed it to Rainbow participants, and that people started calling him "Jesus."

In May 2023, he wrote online: “Mom was telling me I could come back anytime. She was trying to get me to collapse and call her for a ticket home.”

But he said he was determined on the path he had taken: "I find myself more and more alive every minute. Hungry for blood and glory.

“It will be a sad day for ItthoBa’al [a name he had adopted] when the club must pass on to the next incarnation. But for now, I can be incarnated in time to defeat mortality AND the military-industrial complex.”

When asked how he planned to defeat the latter, he said people wouldn't believe him if he said it.

In the summer of 2023, he traveled around Russia, attending a festival and taking photos in Red Square, wearing a red keffiyeh. In early September, he wrote on Telegram that his Russian visa would expire in a week.

By the fall of 2023, he obtained a Russian visa in Istanbul and crossed into Crimea.

By September 5, he had enlisted in the Russian army, and a file with Michael Alexander Gloss's details appeared in the EMIAS medical database. His address was listed as that of a medical examination room given to foreign recruits, Important Stories reports.

During training for the 137th Airborne Regiment in the city of Ryazan, he told fellow recruits that he wanted to obtain Russian citizenship so he could pursue environmental infrastructure projects in the country.

Videos posted by Nepalese and other foreign recruits show Gloss smiling with his head shaved. He told "Mert," a friend of the Rainbow Family organization, that he didn't join to fight, but to get a passport.

In a message, he said: “My goal in life is to build an infrastructure for the oxidation of water to a supercritical state. To end environmental pollution and the diseases and deaths associated with pollution, namely: cancer, lymphoma and all the hormonal problems associated with microplastics and estrogens in water.”

Important Stories spoke to a member of the 137th Regiment, who said that, after training, Gloss was sent “to the assault units.” He last logged into Telegram in March.

According to an obituary from his family, Gloss died on April 4. At the time, the 137th regiment was fighting northwest of Soledar, between the towns of Rozdolivka and Vesele.

The positions were described as “unfavorable” and the landscape “heavy” in a Telegram post from the 106th division, which includes the 137th regiment. The exact circumstances of Gloss’s death are unclear.

Eight months after his death, Gloss's family held a funeral for him in Fairfax, Virginia.

The obituary does not mention Gloss's membership in the Russian army. It reads: "Michael was loving and curious, with a gift for building and a love of nature and all its creatures.

“[He] had a high sense of justice… [and] wanted the world to be a better place.

“He knew the names of trees and plants, loved sleeping under the stars and cooking on an open fire.

"With his noble heart and warrior spirit, Michael was building his hero's journey when he was tragically killed in Eastern Europe on April 4, 2024."

Gallina, a Navy veteran, joined the CIA in 2019. On LinkedIn, her profile says her current role includes working “to accelerate my agency’s digital transformation to preserve the strategic advantage for our nation.”


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