Lee Lescaze

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.


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