Mikhail Mukasey Biography Wikipedia

For a long time remaining in the shadow of the Cold War, the story of Mikhail and Elizabeth - Zephyra and Elsa - began to be executed in the Russian media immediately after the death of summer Elizabeth, who died in the year, a year after the death of her husband. The author of the article Megan STEK writes that the history of the Mukasei spouses found grateful listeners, since, according to him, the Russians adore spy stories, especially those who remind of the great Soviet past and resurrect the subservient glory of the Second World War.

However, we will talk about the biography of these two Soviet agents as it is transferred to Wikipedia, especially since their activities are directly related to spy work in Israel. Mikhail Isaakovich Mukasey was born on August 13 in the place of Zama, the Minsk province in the Jewish family of hereditary blacksmiths. At the age of 18, he went to get an education at a rabfak in Leningrad, studied at the Institute of Oriental Languages, specializing in Bengal and English.

In the year with his wife, Elizabeth Ivanovna Mukase is nee. Emelyanova, and two children went to work through military intelligence in Los Angeles. The parents and family of Mukasei, who remained in the Zascha, were shot by the Germans along with other Jews of the place at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In the year, Mukasey and his wife and children returned to Moscow and was appointed deputy head of the training part of a special intelligence school.

In the year, he again went to illegal intelligence work in Switzerland, where taking advantage of the Yiddish free possession, legalized under the guise of a Jewish-commercial Jew who survived in a concentration camp and a past camp. He worked under the code name "Zephyr" in the USA and a number of other countries, including in the years during the six -day war - in Israel. In the year, Mikhail Mukasey with his family returned to Moscow, was engaged in the preparation of young illegal immigrants, wrote textbooks for intelligence schools, was a professor at the Russian Academy of Safety, Defense and Law and Narhazing ..

In December of the year, the Mukasei couple published the book of their memoirs “Zephyr and Elsa”, in which they wrote about work and life abroad for 30 years. Son - Anatoly Mikhailovich Mukasey, Soviet and Russian movie operator. The daughter -in -law is the actress and film director Svetlana Sergeevna Druzhinina. Grandma - Cinema Mikhail Anatolyevich Mukasey Rod. Now let's return to the article in The Los Angeles Times, where its author is talking with the son of Mukasei Anatoly, famous for the Soviet and Russian movie operator.

Anatoly Mukasey says that at the end of his parents' life, he and his sister asked them: why do other scouts talk about on TV, but no one remembers you? To which his father, Mikhail Mukasey, replied: "In our profession, a son, only those who lit up are known. And we did not light up. We have not made a single mistake."