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Jay Vivian „Whittaker“ Chambers war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Redakteur sowie kommunistischer Agent und Informant. 1938 wechselte er auf Grund der Berichte über die Moskauer Prozesse die Seite und trat aus der Kommunistischen Partei der USA aus. Er wurde Repräsentant des amerikanischen McCarthyismus der frühen 1950er Jahre ...
Whittaker Chambers sought a simple life of farming the Pipe Creek Farm. He was a Quaker. His beliefs ran toward austerity and self-effacement. Quaker meeting houses stand unadorned, without monuments or statues. He would not have liked such fanfare.
Whittaker Chambers (born April 1, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died July 9, 1961, near Westminster, Md.) was an American journalist, Communist Party member, Soviet agent, and a principal figure in the Alger Hiss case, one of the most publicized espionage incidents of the Cold War.
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Learn about the life and work of Whittaker Chambers, who was a Communist spy, a TIME editor, and a witness in the Hiss Case. Explore his memoir Witness, his translations, his letters, and his legacy.
Witness, first published in May 1952, is a best-selling book of memoirs by American writer Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961), which recounts his life as a dedicated Marxist-communist ideologist in the 1920s, his work in the Soviet underground during the 1930s, and his 1948 testimony before the US Congress, which led to a criminal ...
Whittaker Chambers, orig. Jay Vivian Chambers, (born April 1, 1901, Philadelphia—died July 9, 1961, near Westminster, Md., U.S.), U.S. journalist and principal figure in the Alger Hiss case.
Jay Vivian „Whittaker“ Chambers war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller und Redakteur sowie kommunistischer Agent und Informant. 1938 wechselte er auf Grund der Berichte über die Moskauer Prozesse die Seite und trat aus der kommunistischen Partei aus.
