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prove espionage on his part as a communist agent.
To those of u s old enough to remember
the time, the story begins wit.h a clouding
of what the precise relationship had become between two staunch allies of World
War II, Russia and the United States.
Young and questioning people, Iibera1 and
creative folk , especially, were unsettled
over the war, which like all wars had cost
so much and seemingly solved so little.
The basic truths o f right and wrong were
elusive. It was an era of restlessness and
search. Ideologies and counterideologies
were freely exchanged at parties. Underground the hard and brutal espionage
machines had long been at their silent
work. Some men of goodwill were troubled and aimless: there were other men
who knew precisely what their goals were.
Still others, some in very high places, had
good reason to co nceal or make light of
their actions of a decade earlier .
Two such men collided in a confrontation which shook the nation. Today it
reads like a TV seria1-a co mplex fabric
woven by idiots. The plot involved our
nationa1 safety. It also brought together
inextricably the lives of t.wo entirely different American men , both of them talented and gifted. Ultimately they came
face to face in a court o f law, with the
eyes of the world on them, and the conflicting stories they told were shocking,
frightening, and yet pathetic _
The name of one was Alger Hiss, once
an official in the State Department, a
member of President Franklin Roosevelt's
inner circle, the President's confidant at
the Yalta Conference, one of the chief
archit.ects of the United Nations charter
and the Secretary General of the United
Nations organizational con ference .
It would be difficu lt to fin d a more
impeccable backgrou nd than that of Hiss .
He was a grad uate of Johns Hopkins
University and Harvard Law School, both
with highest honors. He was o n the board
of lhe H arvard Law Reuiew. He was
chosen as a young man to be secretary to
the renowned Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Alger Hiss was urbane and flawless in dress. His bearing exuded sob riety,
confidence, dedication and aplomb. Not a
hair on his head was out of place. There
was no ounce of flab on his body. One
look was enough to assure anyone that
Alger was the essence of the creme de la
creme-t.he very best the e lite eastern
establishment could produce. Fortunate
we were to have a young man of such
quality to help guide the affairs of state.
And to gild this pure white lily, Alger Hiss
was an expert (if amateur ) bi rdwatcher.
He could talk with eloquence and enthusi asm about the rare prothonotary warbler ,
a shy creature with exquisite gold and
yellow markings which was a sometime
habitue of the swamps of Virginia. No one
who really likes birds can intend ill for his
fellowman.
The other man , Whittaker Chambers,
was something else. He was fal and pudgy
and wore hopelessly rumpled suits.
The bugaboo was everywhere_ Here, the first witness is sworn at a House Un-American. Activities
Committee hearing de/ding with Communis t influence in Hollywood. Rep. Richard M. Nixon sits to
Rep. J. Parnell ThotrUJs 's left. ufl of center, the author, a Post photographer reJIdies his Speed Graphic_
Whittaker Ch4mbers productd sixty-fifle docu ments lh4t h4d been filched from the State Department. This one was dated February /5, J 938.
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esp ion age cases o f th e F o rties r eflec t s o n th e stra n ge
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si gnifican ce of those events t o d ay .
Last year an attorney named Alger Hiss
was quiet.ly readmitted to the bar. He is
seventy years old, but this fact is significant only to those who can remember
that in 1948 his name was the foc us of
the most sensational spy story of the era.
It. had all of the elements o f a fiction
thriller written by an author possessed of
one mad literary Oaw: his plOL revolved
upon a preposterous device, a secret film
hidden in a pumpkin. On this hung the
vindication or destruction of the character
of a man in high government service. Yet
this lo w comedy relief was the stuff of
true life tragedy, involving a confrontation of t.he two greatest. nat.ions on earth.
The story is not retold here with a view
to any misguided nostalgia concerning this
somewhat sordid case. What makes it
timely and meaningful today is that. our
country is under severe stress in matters
of security and espionage, and that is
I)recisely what the Pumpkin Papers trial
was all about. And , what is even more
astounding is the fact that Alger Hiss is
now practicing law in the courts of the
same nation which convicted him for perjury in a case specifically intended to
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(Left) Alger Hiss tOtMy. He IuJs outlived many of
his opponents. (Below) Hiss with his wwyer William L. Marbury at the time of the trWI.
Squeaky Fromme would have been
jealous or at least ecstatic about his background. As a young disenchanted intellectual he had broken with society in the
1920's. He had been expelled from college
and lied to get back in. He had lived in
hovel s, consorted with prostitutes, gone
for years dirty and unwashed with out
owning a suit. He had adopted at least a
half dozen aliases. He had owned a falsified passport. using the stolen name o f a
baby deceased at birth. He had been an
editor of the Daily Worller. He had filled
out scores of fraudulent government
papers. In the 1920's he had been a cardcarrying communist. In the 1930's he
joined the communist underground, an
arm of the Soviet intelligence network. In
this role he scurried with secrets from government fun ctionaries in Washington to
his cont.acts in New York. Then, said
Chambers (and we have no reason to
doubt), he broke with the party, hid for a
while and joined the staff of Time magazine. Time either liked or forgave him his
creden tials; within a scant nine years he
was a senior editor wit.h a salary of
530,000 (more than that. of a U. S.
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The Witness himself, Whittaker CluJmbers, testifie$. Funny. straightforward. he made his crimes
against the state seem half those of Hiss.
THE
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mcnl 'S cod es. These do cuments had
co mc into the hands o f Chambers, an
admitted commu nist spy. Priscil la
Hiss had used that same type write r
Alger Hiss could not be convicted
in 1948 for esp io nage comm itted in
1937; the staw te of limitat ions had
run o ut . But the House Committee
for some of her personal correspondence, which was also turned in as
c\'idence.
on Un-Ameri can Activitie s could
bers. Inexo rabl y events marched fo rward . Hiss brough t libel su it again st
Chambers. The FBI investiga ted.
Then a grand jury ind icted Hiss ro r
perjury. Somewhere Hiss had sworn
p.,.
question him. Indeed he requested
Senator at the time). Such a man was
he had not delivered documents to
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them to. so he could re bu t ChamWhitta ker Chambers. He had graduated from the un ke mpt, u n- , ____________________-,-____.,.-______.,.-__.,-:,,-_________________
the wounds stz·ll bleed.
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h, d to th' '" mpl,d '" it.
He spo ke t he truth. 110
doubt, w h('11 he cand idl y
told of the lies he had lived
and the lies he had formerly
told . A pesky qU l'Stion kept
coming u p. though: was he
telling the t ruth when he
said he had sto pped lying?
Chambers was also a
clever man. One of the cleverest things he did was to
sa\'e some of the stole n government papers he was supposed to deliver to New
York. Some o f the m, it was
pro \'ed beyond a do ubt,
were ty ped o n a ty pewri ter
owned, o r once owned , by
the impeccable Alger Hiss.
In 1948the House Committee on Un-Ame rican
Acli\'ities fou nd Whit taker
Chambers and asked him to
testify. He wasn't hard to
fin d. Chambers had been
trying to tell h is sto ry fo r
some t ime. He had repeat·
edly approached t he State
De p artment about it.
Chambers testified because
he felt it was h is duty . Ue
offered a list of names of
other Commu nist Party
members who were part of
this espionage ring. At t he
end of the list was the name
of Alger Hiss.
Chambers claimed th at
Hiss in the late 1930's had
smuggled documents out of
the State De partment and
given t hem to Chambers.
lI iss emphat ically den ied
this and said he had never
known a man named Whittaker Chambers.
J-liss was e\'e ntually co nvicted of perjury. He had
den ied t hat he was a member o f the spy ring controlled by Chambers. But it was
certainly dirficult to imagine how he could have
claimed that he ne\'er knew
Cham bers when ensconced
in t he Hiss home was an
e x p e nsi\'e Oriental rug
w h ic h C h a m bers had
bought fo r Mr. Alger Hiss as
a gift wit h communist
money. One th ing was
clear: Chambers could
prove he had bought t he
rug an d no w Hiss had it.
And then there was that
ty pewriter. Secret documents had been typed on it
which Sumner Welies, an
Under Secretary o f State of
earlier times, testified were
high ly se(:ret an d com·
prised the State Depart-
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Chambers or seen him aner 1937.
There was strong evidence to the
contrary. Thus, after two trials (the
first with a hung jury) Hiss stood
convicted o f perjury,
To the public Hiss was t ried not
for perjury but for espionage. Indeed
any sensible man reading the case
today would come to the same con·
clusion. Hiss was in errect tried and
convicted in 1949 for a crime com·
mitted circa 1937. The sympathies
of enlightened (and naive) Ameri·
cans toward the Soviet Union had
changed th rice from 1938 to 1949;
once when Hitler and Stalin had
ru thlessly joined hands to rape Po ·
land, once again when l1 itler at·
t.acked Russia, and finally when in
postwar years the iron curt.ain fell
across the face of Europe. Hiss was,
for practical purposes, convicted for
a 1937 deed by a jury and American
public with 1949 values. Thus Iliss
was tried and convicted for doing
something in 1937 which his accuser
Chambers free ly and cheerfully ad·
milled he too had done. In truth the
two opposites had worked in ap par·
ent conce rt.
The conOict began in committee
hearing rooms and federal court·
houses. It wou ld dominate the news·
pap4'rs for two years, sandwiched
between the Berlin Airlin and the
Korean War. It was more than a long
barrage of testimony. It was the
meeting o f the ideology of the
gloomy Thirties and postwar Ameri·
can moral ism. it wasn't just Alger
l1iss on trial; accord ing to Bri tish
jou rnalist Alistair Cooke, it was "a
generation on trial."
This writer was a working news
photographer d uring the drawn-out
investigation involving both Cham·
bers and Hiss. The hearings were rna·
jor news ewnls month after month . I
covered most of these and even trod
in the pum pkin field arter that dra·
matic event was disclosed . So, here is
a very brief summary of this histo ri·
cal spy case.
Wh ile a student at Columbia Uni·
\'ersity in 1925, Chambers became a
commun ist. " It was shortly after the
war," he said later. "Germany was in
chaos, and partly occupied; northern
france and parls of Belgium .....ere
smashed to pieces. It seemed to me
that a crisis had been reached in
Western civilization which the soci·
ety was notable to solve by the usual
means. I then began to look around
for the unusual means. I fi rst studied
British Fabian socialism. bu t reo
jected it as unworkable in practice. I
came to the writings of Marx and
Lenin. They seemed to me to ex plain
the nature of the crisis and what to
do about il."
Many other Americans were turn·
ing to communism in the faceorthe
crises of the late Twenties and early
Thirties. But it wasn't unti l Cham·
bers had been a member of the Com·
mu nist Party for seven years that he
d iscovered the party mai ntai ned a
variety of hidden, conspiratorial
organizations called, col1ecti\-ely.
the Underground or the Apparatus.
Chambers learned of the Under·
ground in 1932, when he was asked
to jOin. Before this time, he had used
his abilities as a writer and an editor
of The Daily Worker, the party's of·
ficia l publ ication. Now he spent his
time in a world of microfilm and
ill\'isible ink. There were mysterious
rendezvous in restaurants and movie
theaters. Soon Chambers realized he
was not working for the American
Communist Party anymore; he was
actually in the employ of the Soviet
Underground and the Comintern. He
was in fact an agent for a foreign
country.
In 1934 , Chambers was trans·
ferred to Washington, D.C. and was
assigned to the " Ware Group," one
of the most successful espionage
forces in American history. One of
the leaders of that group, according
to Chambers, was Alger l1iss.
Chambers met Hiss in his first
days in Washington. Chambers was
known simply by the alias "CarL"
The two men became friends, and
when Chambers set up his outpost in
the top half of the Women's Chris·
tian T emperance Union Build ing in
Baltimore, Hiss and h is wife Prisci lla
were frequent visitors. When the
l1 isses moved from one house to an·
other, the Chamberses ae<:epted
Hiss's offer and oCC\lpied their old
apartment until the lease ran out.
The relationship was both a professional one-the espionage matters
between l1iss and "Carl"-and a per·
sonal one-the mutual affection of
the l1iss and Chambers families.
When Hiss was appointed to a
post in the State Department by the
Assistant Secretary o f State, he be·
gan to work even more closely with
Chambers. Hiss nightly obtained
confidential government documenls
which he either retyped or ga\'e to
Chambers to be photographed.
Chambers, in tum , handed most of
the typed copies and photocopies
over to his superiors in the Under·
ground.
In 1938, Chambers broke with
communism. He deserted his party
simply by refusing to keep an ap·
pointment with General Bykov, a
Russian who had come to America
to oversee the espionage operations.
Chambers bought a gun and secretly
moved his family toan obscure loca·
tion. After a short time Chambers
mustered up his courage and came
out of hiding, living and working
under his own name. " l Ien the Com·
munist Party to fight it," he wrote.
Though Chambers began "fight.
ing it" almost immediately after
leaving the party, it wasn't until
1948 that people began to listen to
him. By that Lime, they were eager.
On August 3, 1948, Chambers
testified under subpoena before the
House Un·American Activities Com·
mittee. Chambers had decided ,
though , to tell the committee only
of his former associates' membership
The Perfect Squelch
Soon after the spring term began , the new young teacher
realized t.hat the principal had unloaded t.he school's most
unruly problem children on her. Being new, she hesitated
to complain.
Then came t.he day when the principal smugly informed
several important visitors to the school that she had some
of the nicest pupils t.here-"all fine, normal youngsters."
"Is that. so?" one of the visitors casually asked the
teacher.
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abnormal-t.hey have good manners."
Lloyd E. Graham
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in the Communist PartY ,leavingoul
the details of the espionage opera·
tion. One of the men he named was
Alger Hiss.
When Hiss was called to testify
before the committee in executive
session, he denied al\ of Chambers's
allegations and denied that he'd ever
known anyone by that name.
Hiss, who had been unable to
identify Chambers from. photographs, finally recognized Chambers
as George Crosley, a rree·lance writ·
er. He still denied all of Chambers's
charges and when Chambers reo
peated those charges on a netwo rk
broadcast of "Meet the Press," Hiss
filed su it.
Chambers now went further than
just Slating that Hiss was a commu·
nist . He now charged that Hiss had
been engaged in espionage opera·
tions, for a considerable period of
time.
Hiss had steadfastly maintained
that he never knew "a man called
Whitt.aker Chambers." It was not
until Hiss had sued Chambers for
libel that the ramous " Pumpkin
Papers" came to light, and l-liss was
finally trapped . Like many other
journalistic labels the " Pumpkin
Papers" included more than what
was inside the pumpkin. Actually
two rolls of exposed film and one
roll of blank film were hidden in the
pumpkin by Chaplbers, who feared
communist agents might get them.
The tot.al papers included the film
which consisted of microfilm copies
of State Department documents,
official records typed on the Wood·
stock ty pewriter owned by lI iss lind
a few other du plicates of govern·
mental reco rds, many in Hiss's own
handwriting. Hiss had gh'en these to
Chambers, who should have passed
them along to his Soviet agentsChambers had hedged his bet and'
secreted some of the material away
fo r protection.
I was not around,of course, when
Benl!dict Arnold was doing his dirty
work fo r the British, but I well recall
hI! is still the most famous of Ameri·
can spies. What the history books
will say about the Chambers·Hiss
case remains to be seen. McCarthy.
ism and overzealous congressional
in\'estigations of the era will get a big
play . The fact that irrefutable evi.
dence shows there was a time when
an espionage ring directed by a for·
eign power nourished in America
will do well to rate a footnote in
history. It was a famous case twenty.
fiveyearsago.
Many prominent political figures
were involved. Young Representa.
tive Richard Nixon (Republican,
California) led the battle against Hiss
from his post on the House Un.
American Activities Committee.
President Harry Truman called the
whole thing a " red herring." The ef·
fort to pin down Hiss as a spy was a
major news slory month after
month. Ho wever, with newspapers
such as the Washington Post support·
ing Hiss, many peo ple .....ere not quite
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sure whether it was Hiss or Cham hers
who was the culprit. The fa cts were
simple; both were culprits. One had
cheerfully confessed and implicated
the other. The statute of limitations
had run out for both for the crime
of espionage.
Through long hearings, Hiss
proved to be a brilliantly slippery
witness. He was well spoken and
. acted properly indignant when ac-
cused . He received generally favorable press as well as the st rong en-
dorsement of Secretary
or
State
Dean Acheson, who announced, " I
do not intend to turn my back on
Alger Hiss." Add to this T ruman 's
"red herring" remark and very unusual appearances o f Supreme Court
Associate Justices Felix Frankfurter
and Stanley Reed who were Hiss's
character witnesses, and Hiss became
in the minds o f many a man with
credentials beyond reproach. At
times, the tables seemed turned
against Chambers, what with all the
notables and in flu ential members of
the press siding with Hiss. Eventually
convicted, Hiss was sentenced to
five years in prison.
Whittaker Chambers had resigned
from his post as Senior Editor o f
Time during the hearings and trials.
In 1952 he published his autobiog·
ra phy, Witness (it was serialized in
the Post). He died in 196 1.
Alger Hiss se rved forty·four
month s of his five·year term , and
since has held a nu mber of jobs (in.
cluding that of a clerk in a New Yo rk
stationery shop) .
It was the persistence of t he
House Un·American Activities Com·
mittee , the mistake Hiss himself
made in suing Chambers for libel,
and the evidence o f the " Pumpkin
Papers" which finaily led to the con·
viction o f Mr. Hiss by the New York
Federal Cou rt ju ry .
Now, the frail seventy·year-old
man has been readmitted to the Mas·
sachusetts bar so that he can practice
law in that state. Years ago, although
Congress had passed a special law to
pre\'ent his getting a pension for his
eleven years at the State Department, he wo n his pension remunera·
tion by a court order. Last fall , Hiss
appeared at the Washington Press
Club and reported he was studying
old FBI fil es searching for evidence
which might lead to his complete
vindicatio n.
The trial, those many years ago , is
linked to the present not on ly by the
risi ng tide o f concern over espionage
activities, but also by the fact that
the Hiss·Chamben affair, fo r the
first time, dramatized the power of
television as a stage for national
e\'enu. Television fulfill ed its role as
the electronic reporter, developing a
new kind of history- the history of
immediacy. But the pho tographs
taken at the scene also ha\·e their
place on the record. Thanks to them,
the years roll bac k and lime stands
still, and the strange case of the
Pumpk in Papers comes center stage
once .gain . lJ
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there at the Olympic Games under·
neath that German blue sky . Now,
my attention was diverted from th at
beautiCul picture, because the whis·
tle had been blown and we were to
assem ble aro und the starter to reo
ceive our fin al instructions fo r t his
historic event. After our instructions
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mark and ad justed hands and reet.
Every muscle in his body was stra in·
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The athletes ran neck and neck fo r
some yards, but our Ralph Metcalfe
or Marquette Universi ty led the field
at the fifty.yard mark. From then,
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