He moved to France and joined the fledgling United Nations as secretariat of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under Julian Huxley. In 1951, Malina became head of UNESCO's division of scientific research. Two years later, Malina left UNESCO to pursue an interest in kinetic art. In 1952, at the height of the Red Scare, Malina was indicted for having failed to list his Communist Party membership on an old security questionnaire from Caltech. He was declared a fugitive, to be arrested if and when he returned to the United States. In 1968 in Paris he founded Leonardo, an international peer-reviewed research journal that featured articles written by artists on their own work, and focused on the interactions between the contemporary arts with the sciences and new technologies. The Leonardo journal is still published as a project of Leonardo/ISAST, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. In 1990, Malina was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame. Death and family Malina married twice. In 1939, he married Liljan Darcourt, a daughter of French Catholic immigrants; they divorced in 1945 (she later married advertising executive Lester Wunderman). Frank Malina died in 1981 in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, France. His widow Marjorie Duckworth Malina died in 2006. Their sons Roger and Alan Malina live and work in the Dallas, TX area and Portugal, respectively. Literature Fraser MacDonald: Escape From Earth: A Secret History of The Space Race. PublicAffairs, New York, 2019, See also Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory Qian Xuesen (H.S. Tsien) References and notes External links 'Frank Malina On Line Archive' Frank Malina timeline Leonardo Journal JPL history Includes a detailed account of Malina's post-JPL life, by a scholar who had access to his FBI file "Propulsion" –– The documentary, Huffington Post American people of Czech descent American aerospace engineers 20th-century American painters American male painters Texas A&M University alumni Early spaceflight scientists Rocket scientists 1912 births 1981 deaths California Institute of Technology alumni People from Brenham, Texas NASA people 20th-century American engineers 20th-century American male artists Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic)