peoplepill id: michael-leshing
ML
1 views today
2 views this week
The basics
Quick Facts
Intro
American spy
A.K.A.
Michael S. Leshing
Places
was
Work field
Gender
Male
Age
70 years
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Michael S. Leshing was an American citizen and the Superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories in the 1940s. He was awarded an Oscar in 1945 for Technical Achievement for his work in color film processing.
Leshing was also linked to a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence during World War II. In 1943, a Venona project decryption reported that he provided the KGB's Technical Line intelligence documents and a formula for color motion pictures and other film-processing technology.
Leshing is referenced in the following Venona project decryption:
512 KGB San Francisco to Moscow, 7 December 1943.
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Michael Leshing is in following lists
By work and/or country
comments so far.
Comments
Michael Leshing