Lt. Col. Elizaveta Ivanovna Mukasei (; 21 March 1912, Ufa – 19 September 2009,

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) was a

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spy codenamed Elza. Along with her husband Mikhail Mukasei (whose codename was Zephyr), she took part in a number of

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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 20th-century Russian memoirists Recipients of the Order of Alexander Nevsky Saint Petersburg State University alumni Soviet memoirists {{Russia-bio-stub