Witness Summary
Whittaker Chambers

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Witness, by Whittaker Chambers, is the story of Communist penetration of the United States government by an underground cell, run by Whittaker Chambers. His underground espionage apparatus includes Alger Hiss, an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State; Harry Dexter White, an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; Julian Wadleigh in the Trade Agreements section at State; and Vincent Reno at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, then a secret military installation...

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Whittaker Chambers Biographies (3)

(David) Whittaker Chambers

4,520 words, approx. 16 pages

Whittaker Chambers achieved public renown as the principal informant in what became the greatest espionage trial of the Cold War. In August 1948 Chambers informed the House of Representatives' Committ... Read more

Whittaker Chambers

993 words, approx. 4 pages

In 1948 TIME magazine editor Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) testified that in the 1930s he helped organize a Communist spy ring in the U.S. government. His accusations against State Department officia... Read more

Whittaker Chambers

545 words, approx. 2 pages

Whittaker Chambers was a confessed spy for the Soviet Union and the chief witness in the 1949 perjury trials of Alger Hiss. Chambers accused Hiss, who had been an important official with the U.S. Stat... Read more

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