Whittaker Chambers

Jay Vivian (Whittaker) Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer, editor, political operative and defector best known for his accusation and testimony against Alger Hiss, the architect of the Yalta Conference and Secretary General of the San Francisco conference that created the United Nations, on espionage and subversion charges.

Members of the Karl group

"Karl" and "Carl" were cryptonyms used by Chambers in the mid-1930s as courier between the CPUSA secret apparatus and Soviet intelligence. It appears that after the mysterious death of the NKVD Illegal Rezident Valentin Markin in August 1934, within days the Karl group was transfered to the GRU Illegal Rezident Boris Bykov. Below is a partial list of members.

Related Topics:
Cryptonym - CPUSA - Valentin Markin - August - 1934 - Boris Bykov

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• Noel Field, United States Department of State
• Harold Glasser, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury
• Alger Hiss, United States Department of State
• Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee
• Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; head of branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution
• Ward Pigman, National Bureau of Standards; Labor and Public Welfare Committee
• Vincent Reno, mathematician at United States Army Aberdeen Proving Ground
• George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
• Julian Wadleigh, United States Department of State
• Harry Dexter White, Director of the Division of Monetary Research Secretary of the Treasury
• Viktor Vasilevish Sveshchnikov, United States War Department