diff --git a/googletest/src/gtest-port.cc b/googletest/src/gtest-port.cc
index 13901e3f54..fecb5d11c2 100644
--- a/googletest/src/gtest-port.cc
+++ b/googletest/src/gtest-port.cc
@@ -294,6 +294,43 @@ void Mutex::AssertHeld() {
       << "The current thread is not holding the mutex @" << this;
 }
 
+namespace {
+
+// Use the RAII idiom to flag mem allocs that are intentionally never
+// deallocated. The motivation is to silence the false positive mem leaks
+// that are reported by the debug version of MS's CRT which can only detect
+// if an alloc is missing a matching deallocation.
+// Example:
+//    MemoryIsNotDeallocated memory_is_not_deallocated;
+//    critical_section_ = new CRITICAL_SECTION;
+//
+class MemoryIsNotDeallocated
+{
+ public:
+  MemoryIsNotDeallocated() : old_crtdbg_flag_(0) {
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+    old_crtdbg_flag_ = _CrtSetDbgFlag(_CRTDBG_REPORT_FLAG);
+    // Set heap allocation block type to _IGNORE_BLOCK so that MS debug CRT
+    // doesn't report mem leak if there's no matching deallocation.
+    _CrtSetDbgFlag(old_crtdbg_flag_ & ~_CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF);
+#endif  //  _MSC_VER
+  }
+
+  ~MemoryIsNotDeallocated() {
+#ifdef _MSC_VER
+    // Restore the original _CRTDBG_ALLOC_MEM_DF flag
+    _CrtSetDbgFlag(old_crtdbg_flag_);
+#endif  //  _MSC_VER
+  }
+
+ private:
+  int old_crtdbg_flag_;
+
+  GTEST_DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN_(MemoryIsNotDeallocated);
+};
+
+}  // namespace
+
 // Initializes owner_thread_id_ and critical_section_ in static mutexes.
 void Mutex::ThreadSafeLazyInit() {
   // Dynamic mutexes are initialized in the constructor.
@@ -304,7 +341,11 @@ void Mutex::ThreadSafeLazyInit() {
         // If critical_section_init_phase_ was 0 before the exchange, we
         // are the first to test it and need to perform the initialization.
         owner_thread_id_ = 0;
-        critical_section_ = new CRITICAL_SECTION;
+        {
+          // Use RAII to flag that following mem alloc is never deallocated.
+          MemoryIsNotDeallocated memory_is_not_deallocated;
+          critical_section_ = new CRITICAL_SECTION;
+        }
         ::InitializeCriticalSection(critical_section_);
         // Updates the critical_section_init_phase_ to 2 to signal
         // initialization complete.
@@ -546,7 +587,8 @@ class ThreadLocalRegistryImpl {
   // Returns map of thread local instances.
   static ThreadIdToThreadLocals* GetThreadLocalsMapLocked() {
     mutex_.AssertHeld();
-    static ThreadIdToThreadLocals* map = new ThreadIdToThreadLocals;
+    MemoryIsNotDeallocated memory_is_not_deallocated;
+    static ThreadIdToThreadLocals* map = new ThreadIdToThreadLocals();
     return map;
   }