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Chambers, Whittaker Archived Website, Jul 15, 2011 - ongoing

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Chambers, Whittaker

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This site is the official website of Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961). He was a member of the Workers Party of America (1925), journalist at the Daily Worker and New Masses (1926- 1932), Soviet underground agent (1932- 1938), editor and senior editor at TIME magazine (1939- 1948), witness in the Alger Hiss Case (1948-1950), author of best-selling memoir Witness (1952), member of the founding editors of National Review, and (posthumous) recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This website contains blog posts related to the lives of other communists, information about the life of Chambers, and posting on current events related to Chambers' work.

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