A 21-year-old American, Michael Alexander Gloss, the son of a senior CIA official and an Iraq war veteran, was killed in Donetsk last April while fighting with the Russian army against the Ukrainians.
The news was reported by the Washington Post , quoting iStories, an independent Russian investigative journalism website based abroad.
The 21-year-old's mother is Juliane Gallina, the CIA's deputy director for digital innovation, while his father is Larry Gloss, now head of a physical security technology company.
“Michael struggled with mental illness most of his life,” Gloss told WP, saying his son was a Bob Dylan-loving peace activist who wanted to save the environment. A young
that "wouldn't hurt a flea."
Michael Gloss was one of the few Americans to fight with Moscow’s forces in the war against Ukraine. Unusually for the son of a senior CIA official and an Iraq war veteran, he grew up in a comfortable suburb of Washington. “If you had known our son, he was the quintessential anti-establishment, anti-authority young man from the moment he came into the world,” his father told WP.
(Online Union)
