Lt. Col. Elizaveta Ivanovna Mukasei (russian: Елизаве́та Ива́новна Мукасе́й; 21 March 1912,
Ufa
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– 19 September 2009,
Moscow
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) was a
Soviet
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spy
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codenamed Elza. Along with her husband
Mikhail Mukasei (whose codename was Zephyr), she took part in a number of
undercover
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operations in Western Europe and the United States from the 1940s through to the 1970s. She died on September 19, 2009, in Moscow at age 97. Her husband died on August 19, 2008, aged 101.
Elizaveta Mukasei, Soviet Spy, Is Dead at 97
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1912 births
2009 deaths
Military personnel from Ufa
Soviet spies against Western Europe
Soviet spies against the United States
World War II spies for the Soviet Union
Russian memoirists
Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
20th-century memoirists
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