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Lee Lescaze

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Lee Adrien Lescaze (December 8, 1938 – July 26, 1996)[1] was an American journalist from Manhattan. After attending Harvard University, he worked as an editor successively at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal.[2][3] During his Washington D.C., assignment, the FBI rented his Georgetown house as a safe house in the ABSCAM sting operation.[4]

Lee Lescaze was the son of the famous early American modernist architect William Lescaze (1896-1969).[5]

References

  1. ^ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  2. ^ "Lee Lescaze, Editor And a Reporter, 57". The New York Times. July 28, 1996. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  3. ^ Osnos, Peter (June 2, 2007). "Two Lives Entwined: Love and Its Costs". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 21 January 2014.
  4. ^ Lescaze, Lee (February 4, 1980). "Scamlord". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  5. ^ "William Lescaze, architect, 72, dies". New York Times. 10 February 1969. Retrieved 13 February 2019.