The son of a senior CIA official has been confirmed killed while fighting for the Russian Army in Ukraine. Michael Gloss, 21, son of CIA deputy director for digital innovation Juliane Gallina Gloss, was killed in April 2024 while participating in fighting in Donetsk Oblast.
Gloss became radicalized while attending College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, which offers exactly one degree program called Human Ecology. He was arrested during climate change and pro-abortion protests. His Instagram page features an American flag burning.
According to Gloss’s father, Larry, a Navy veteran, Michael had dropped out of college, stopped taking medication for his psychiatric problems, and decided to backpack around Europe. The website iStories documents his travels as part of a hippie-like group called the Rainbow Family.
He was drawn to Russia “believing that only in Russia could he realize his dream of building a water purifier to help people who didn’t have access to clean water.”
Apparently, he wanted to become a Russian citizen and may have thought that serving in the destruction of Ukraine was an easy way of achieving that end.
Michael entered Russia in August and by September 5 his name appears on a