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'''Orazio Lomi Gentileschi''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] painter. He was born in [[1563]] in [[Pisa]] (in [[Tuscany]]) and he died in [[1639]] in [[London]]. He was the father of the painter [[Artemisia Gentileschi]].

'''Michael Greenberg''' (born 28 November 1914) has been alleged to have a Soviet spy during the 1940s, but was never charged with espionage. He was also known as '''Michael Gibson'''.

He is generally named Orazio Lomi de Gentileschi; it appears that De Gentileschi was his correct surname, Lomi being the surname which his mother had borne during her first marriage. He was born at Pisa, and studied under his half-brother Aurelio Lomi, whom in course of time he surpassed. He afterwards went to [[Rome]], and was associated with the landscape-painter [[Agostino Tasi]], executing the figures for the landscape backgrounds of this artist in the [[Palazzo Rospigliosi]], and it is said in the great hall of the [[Quirinal Palace]], although by some authorities the figures in the last-named building are ascribed to [[Lanfranco]].

Greenberg was born as '''Menahen Greenberg''' in [[Manchester]], Lancashire, [[England]], son of a Russian-born father.

His best works are ''Saints Cecilia and Valerian'', in the [[Palazzo Borghese]], Rome; ''David after the death of Goliath'', in the Palazzo Doria, [[Genoa]]; and some works in the royal palace, [[Turin]], noticeable for vivid and uncommon coloring. At an advanced age Gentileschi went to [[England]] at the invitation of [[Charles I of England|Charles I]], and he was employed in the palace at [[Greenwich]]. [[Van dyck]] included him in his portraits of a hundred illustrious men. His works generally are strong in shadow and positive in color. He died in England in 1646.

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 worked as a Foreign Affairs Economist in the Administrative Division, Enemy Branch, of the [[Foreign Economic Administration]]. [[Elizabeth Bentley]] stated Greenberg supplied information concerning principally [[China]]. The informartion was passed through [[Mary Price]]. Greenberg worked closely with Presidential aid [[Lauchlin Currie]].

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Greenberg's [[FBI]] file is highly redacted. A wiretap in 1945 revealed Greenbergs's co-workers discussing "the charges against him", and remarking that Greenberg would have been better off if he had worked, but that he had never turned out a piece of work in the three years he had been employed by the government.

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Greenberg later was employed by the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]].

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==Source==

*[http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/silversm.htm Silvermaster Group FBI FOIA]

*Boughton, James M. and Sandilands, Roger J. "[http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/sandilands_fdr_economists.html Politics and the Attack on FDR's Economists: From Grand Alliance to the Cold War]", ''Intelligence and National Security'', Spring 2002

[[Category:Soviet spies|Greenberg, Michael]]