Mikhail Mukasei
Mikhail Mukasei | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mikhail Isakovich Mukasei 13 August 1907 Minsk Oblast, Belarus) |
| Died | 19 August 2008 (aged 101) |
| Known for | Espionage |
| Spouse | Elizaveta Ivanovna Mukasei |
| Children | 2 |
Mikhail Isaakovich Mukasei (
Biography
The son of a Jewish blacksmith, when Mukasei he was 18 he started studying at the Institute of Oriental Languages in
In 1939, he and his wife Elizaveta (née Emelianov, 1912–2009) and their two children, moved to Los Angeles and began gathering military intelligence. Mukasei's parents and other members of his family were killed by the Germans. In 1943, Mukasei, his wife and children returned to Moscow and he was appointed deputy head of the Intelligence School.[3]
From the 1940s through the 1970s, Mukasei, along with his wife Elizaveta (codenamed Elza), took part in a number of undercover operations in Western Europe and the United States.[4][5]
Assigned to the Soviet diplomatic staff in the
In 1977 Mukasei and his family returned to Moscow and began training spies. He wrote training manuals for reconnaissance work and was a professor at the Russian Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement. In December, 2004, Mukasei published a book of their memoirs called Zephyr and Elsa in which they wrote about their thirty years of work and life abroad.[4] In the post-Soviet period, he was honored for his "outstanding contribution to ensuring the security of the Russian Federation".[4]
References
- ^ Могила М. И. Мукасея
- ^ Биография на сайте СВР РФ
- ^ "Два нелегала приоткрыли своё лицо". 10 January 2005. Archived from the original on 2015-12-19. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
- ^ a b c d e "Senior Russian spy Mikhail Mukasei dies aged 101". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2023-04-03.
- ^ Elizaveta Mukasei, Soviet Spy, Is Dead at 97 The New York Times; accessed 16 September 2017.
External links
- Mikhail Mukasei's obituary (in Italian)