Subject: Deputy Director of CIA Given Order of Lenin Med
On August 8, Putin met with Stephen Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy, in Moscow. Cameras rolled as Putin handed him a Soviet-era Order of Lenin — not for Witkoff, but for Julian Gallinee Gloss, the CIA’s deputy director for digital innovation. Gloss’s 21-year-old son, Michael, had signed up with Russia’s Ministry of Defense, fought in Ukraine on the Russian side, and was killed there in 2024. In Moscow, it was seen as something closer to an act of gloating — a morbid little performance piece to show he’s not coming to Alaska to compromise. He’s coming to mock.