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| − | [[Image:Currie1939a.gif|right|250px|thumb|'''Lauchlin Currie''', Administrative Assistant to [[President Roosevelt]] <br>and [[KGB]] spy.]] | + | [[Image:Currie1939a.gif|right|250px|thumb|'''Lauchlin Currie''', Administrative Assistant to [[President Roosevelt]] <br>and [[KGB]] spy.]]'''Lauchlin Bernard Currie''' (8 October 1902 - 23 December 1993) was Administrative Assistant to President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], and a [[USSR|Soviet]] spy. |
| − | '''Lauchlin Bernard Currie''' (8 October 1902 - 23 December 1993) was born in West Dublin, Nova Scotia, the Son of Lauchlin and Alice (Eisenhauer) Currie. He attended the London School of Economics and received a B.S. Degree in 1925. In 1931, he received a Ph.D. Degree from Harvard. He married Dorothy York Bacon in 1927, and had two children, Lauchlin Morgan Currie and Roderich Bornish Currie. Currie first came to the United States in 1925, and was naturalized in 1934. He was an instructor and a tutor at Harvard University from 1927 to 1934. [[Paul Sweezy]] was one of his students. He was also a professor of international economics at Fletcher Graduate School of Law and Diplomacy, West Medford, Massachusetts, from 1933 to 1934. During this same period of time he was employed as a consultant by the Kendall Company, a cotton products concern in Boston. Currie served as a trustee of the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, a member of the American Economic Association, and the author of a book entitled ''The Supply and Control of Money in the United States'' published in 1934 and became a standard work on the subject. | + | |
| | + | ==Early Life and Career== |
| | + | Currie was born in West Dublin, Nova Scotia, the Son of Lauchlin and Alice (Eisenhauer) Currie. He attended the London School of Economics and received a B.S. Degree in 1925. In 1931, he received a Ph.D. Degree from Harvard. He married Dorothy York Bacon in 1927, and had two children, Lauchlin Morgan Currie and Roderich Bornish Currie. Currie first came to the United States in 1925, and was naturalized in 1934. He was an instructor and a tutor at Harvard University from 1927 to 1934. [[Paul Sweezy]] was one of his students. He was also a professor of international economics at Fletcher Graduate School of Law and Diplomacy, West Medford, Massachusetts, from 1933 to 1934. During this same period of time he was employed as a consultant by the Kendall Company, a cotton products concern in Boston. Currie served as a trustee of the William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, a member of the American Economic Association, and the author of a book entitled ''The Supply and Control of Money in the United States'' published in 1934, which became a standard work on the subject. |
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| | During the latter part of 1934, Currie was appointed Senior Analyst by Secretary Henry Morgenthau working with [[Harry Dexter White]] in Treasury's Division of Research and Statistics and was later made Assistant Director of Research and Statistics for the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System, which position he retained until 1939, also reportedly won enthusiastic recognition. | | During the latter part of 1934, Currie was appointed Senior Analyst by Secretary Henry Morgenthau working with [[Harry Dexter White]] in Treasury's Division of Research and Statistics and was later made Assistant Director of Research and Statistics for the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System, which position he retained until 1939, also reportedly won enthusiastic recognition. |
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