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Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet underground in 1938.
Esther Shemitz (June 25, 1900 – August 16, 1986), also known as "Esther Chambers" and "Mrs. Whittaker Chambers," was a pacifist American painter and illustrator who, as wife of ex-Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers, provided testimony that "helped substantiate" her husband's allegations during the Hiss Case.
Whittaker Chambers, author of Witness (from 1948 photo in the Library of Congress). What became the "Hiss Case" started on August 3, 1948, when Whittaker Chambers appeared under subpoena before the US House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and testified about his work in the Soviet underground, including service in the mid-1930s as courier between Soviet handlers in New York and members ...
The name 'Pumpkin Papers" arose from four or five rolls of camera film hidden in a pumpkin at the Whittaker Chambers Farm in December 1948. The Pumpkin Papers are a set of typewritten and handwritten documents, stolen from the US federal government (thus information leaks) by members of the Ware Group and other Soviet spy networks in Washington, DC, during 1937–1938, withheld by courier ...
Two Foolish Men: The true story of the friendship between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. Moorop Press. Hiss, Alger (1989). Recollections of a Life. Little Brown & Co. ISBN 1-55970-024-6. Gwynn, Beatrice (1993). Whittaker Chambers: The Discrepancy in the Evidence of the Typewriter. Mazzard Publishers. ISBN 0-9518738-1-4. Worth, Esme J. (1993).
The body was sent to the Medical Examiner’s Office in Frankfort for an autopsy and toxicology test.
there are three contiguous tracts of land associated with chambers – all on east saw mill road at 446, 510, and 622. THIS PICTURE IS PROBABLY WHERE CHAMBERS LIVED FROM 1957 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1961.
In 1948, Chambers would call on Sophia's son Nathan Levine, and they would retrieve the life preserver together. [28] In 1937–1938, while defecting from the Soviet underground, Shemitz's brother-in-law Whittaker Chambers and sister Esther used him as their attorney. For the 1937 purchase of the "Shaw Place" in Westminster, Maryland (where ...