Franklin A Lindsay

Franklin Lindsay, a decorated wartime spy and businessman. During the Second World War, Lindsay, originally from Massachusetts, served with the Office of Strategic Services –– a predecessor agency to the CIA –– and carried out high-stakes missions in central Europe. Among Lindsay’s other accomplishments was his role in developing camera lenses for spy satellites as president of the Itek Corp. He was also named an associate at Harvard College’s Kennedy Institute in 1968. He died at age 95 on October 13, 2011. He was survived by his wife of 62 years, Margot (Coffin), his daughter Catherine Lindsay of Vermont and her husband Martin Johnson, his son John of Los Angeles and his wife Sumiko Imai-Lindsay, and by his three granddaughters: Fiona, Maika, and Saya.