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.

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 …

Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) was an American writer and editor. Born in Philadelphia , he grew up in Lynbrook , Long Island, and studied at Columbia . In 1925, he joined the Workers Party of America (a legal cover for the Communist Party) and worked as an editor at the Daily Worker newspaper and New Masses magazine (1926-1932).

Last week, at 60, Whittaker Chambers died of a heart attack at his 300-acre farm in Westminster, Md. And even at the end, the man who had looked on life itself as a vast, compulsive conspiracy was wrapped in a cloak of secrecy not of his own devising.

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 indictment ...

2018年5月14日 · In 1948 TIME magazine editor Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) testified that in the 1930s he helped organize a Communist spy ring in the U.S. government. His accusations against State Department official Alger Hiss stunned the nation.

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.

Whittaker Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961), born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker, was an American writer and editor. A Communist party member and Soviet spy, he renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent.