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. These people pass government documents to Chambers, who has them photographed and passed on to Colonel Bykov. He, in turn, passes them on to Moscow.
Chambers becomes a Communist when he is in college at Columbia College in New York. He has been to Germany, which is still suffering the devastation of World War I, and feels certain that there will be a World War II......
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