Editing Whittaker Chambers (section)

===Soviet underground===

====Ware group====
<!-- [[WP:NFCC]] violation: [[File:Ware-harold-c1935.jpg|thumb|right|[[Harold Ware]] (1935), whose network Chambers inherited]] -->
Chambers was recruited to join the "communist underground" and began his career as a spy, working for a [[GRU (Soviet Union)|GRU]] (Main Intelligence Directorate) [[spy ring]] headed by [[Alexander Ulanovsky]], also known as Ulrich. Later, his main handler was [[J. Peters|Josef Peters]], who was replaced by CPUSA General Secretary [[Earl Browder]] with [[Rudy Baker]]. Chambers claimed that Peters introduced him to [[Harold Ware]] (although he later denied Peters had ever been introduced to Ware, and also testified to HUAC that he, Chambers, never knew Ware). Chambers claimed that Ware was head of a communist underground cell in Washington that reportedly included the following:<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Haynes
 | first1 = John Earl
 | last2 = Klehr | first2 = Harvey
 | year = 2000
 | title = Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
 | publisher = Yale University Press
 | pages = 62, 63, 64
 | isbn = 0-300-08462-5}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Description
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| [[Lee Pressman]] || Assistant [[general counsel]] of [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] (AAA)
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| [[John Abt]] || Chief of Litigation for [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration|AAA]] (1933–1935), assistant general counsel of the [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] 1935, chief counsel on Senator [[Robert La Follette Jr.]]'s [[La Follette Committee]] (1936–1937) and special assistant to U.S. Attorney General (1937–1938)
|-
| [[Marion Bachrach]] || Sister of John Abt; office manager to Representative [[John Bernard (American politician)|John Bernard]] of the [[Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party]]
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| [[Alger Hiss]] || Attorney for [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]] and [[Nye Committee]]; moved to Department of State in 1936, where he became an increasingly prominent figure
|-
| [[Donald Hiss]] || Brother of Alger Hiss; employed at Department of State
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| [[Nathan Witt]] || Employed at [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]; later moved to [[National Labor Relations Board]]
|-
| [[Victor Perlo]] || Chief of Aviation Section of [[War Production Board]]; later, joined Office of Price Administration at [[U.S. Department of Commerce|Commerce]] and Division of Monetary Research at [[U.S. Department of Treasury|Treasury]]
|-
| [[Charles Kramer (economist)|Charles Kramer]] || Employed at [[United States Department of Labor|Department of Labor]]'s [[National Labor Relations Board|NLRB]]
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| [[George Silverman]] || Employed at [[Railroad Retirement Board|RRB]]; later worked with Federal Coordinator of Transport, U.S. Tariff Commission and Labor Advisory Board of [[National Recovery Administration]]
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| [[Henry Collins (official)|Henry Collins]] || Employed at [[National Recovery Administration]] and later [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]
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| [[Nathaniel Weyl]] || Economist at [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]; later, defected from communism himself and gave evidence against party members
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| [[John Herrmann]] || Author; assistant to Harold Ware; employed at [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]; courier and document photographer for Ware group; introduced Chambers to Hiss
|}
Apart from Marion Bachrach, these individuals were all members of [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] administration. Chambers worked in Washington as an organizer in communists in the city and as a courier between New York and Washington for stolen documents, which were delivered to [[Boris Bykov]], the [[Glavnoye Razvedyvatel'noye Upravleniye|GRU]] [[Illegal Rezident|station chief]].{{citation needed|date=October 2014}}

====Other covert sources====
Using the codename "Karl" or "Carl", Chambers served during the mid-1930s as a courier between various covert sources and Soviet intelligence. In addition to the Ware group mentioned above, other sources that Chambers alleged to have dealt with included the following:<ref>{{cite book
 | last1 = Haynes
 | first1 = John Earle
 | last2 = Klehr | first2 = Harvey
 | year = 2000
 | title = Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
 | publisher = Yale University Press
 | pages = 65, 90–91, 126
 | isbn = 0-300-08462-5}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name !! Description
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| [[Harry Dexter White]] || Director of Division of Monetary Research at the [[US. Department of the Treasury]]
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| [[Harold Glasser]] || Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, [[US. Department of the Treasury]]
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| [[Noel Field]] || Employed at [[United States Department of State|Department of State]]
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| [[Julian Wadleigh]] || Economist with the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]]; later, Trade Agreements section of the [[US. Department of State]]
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| [[Vincent Reno]] || Mathematician at U.S. Army [[Aberdeen, Maryland#Aberdeen Proving Ground|Aberdeen Proving Ground]]
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| [[Ward Pigman]] || Employed at National Bureau of Standards, then Labor and Public Welfare Committee
|}