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Greenberg was born as ''Michael Menahem Greenberg'' in [[Manchester]], Lancashire, England, son of a Polish-born father. He attended Manchester Grammar School and won a scholarship to [[Cambridge]] University where he won first class honours.
 
Greenberg was born as ''Michael Menahem Greenberg'' in [[Manchester]], Lancashire, England, son of a Polish-born father. He attended Manchester Grammar School and won a scholarship to [[Cambridge]] University where he won first class honours.
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Greenberg arrived in the United States in 1939 to attend the Graduate School of [[Harvard University]] under a Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship from [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].  He studied at Harvard from October 1939 to January 1941.  Greenberg also became editor of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) publication, [http://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/ ''Pacific Affairs''] in 1939.  In August, 1941, [[Edward Clark Carter]], General Secretary to the Pacific Council of the IPR, wrote [[Lauchlin Currie]] asking if letters to [[Owen Lattimore]] in China could be transmitted so that "they are not read by others before reaching him." Currie promptly replied on a [[White House]] letterhead that "I will be glad to get the letters you mentioned to Lattimore uncensored." Currie's assistant in the White House was Greenberg.  
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Greenberg arrived in the United States in 1939 to attend the Graduate School of [[Harvard University]] under a Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship from Trinity College, [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]].  He studied at Harvard from October 1939 to January 1941.  Greenberg also became editor of the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]] (IPR) publication, [http://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/ ''Pacific Affairs''] in 1939.  In August, 1941, [[Edward Clark Carter]], General Secretary to the Pacific Council of the IPR, wrote [[Lauchlin Currie]] asking if letters to [[Owen Lattimore]] in China could be transmitted so that "they are not read by others before reaching him." Currie promptly replied on a [[White House]] letterhead that "I will be glad to get the letters you mentioned to Lattimore uncensored." Currie's assistant in the White House was Greenberg.  
    
In 1942 Greenberg became a [[China]] specialist at the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and an assistant to the agency's head, [[Lauchlin Currie]]. Greenberg later worked as a Foreign Affairs Economist in the Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].  [[Elizabeth Bentley]], ([http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm2c.pdf Silvermaster file 2C page 18]) stated that for a brief period Greenberg supplied information concerning principally China.  The information was passed through [[Mary Price]].  
 
In 1942 Greenberg became a [[China]] specialist at the [[Board of Economic Warfare]] and an assistant to the agency's head, [[Lauchlin Currie]]. Greenberg later worked as a Foreign Affairs Economist in the Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]].  [[Elizabeth Bentley]], ([http://foia.fbi.gov/silversm/silversm2c.pdf Silvermaster file 2C page 18]) stated that for a brief period Greenberg supplied information concerning principally China.  The information was passed through [[Mary Price]].  
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