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.

Sources

• Truman Presidential Library
• Whittaker Chambers: A Centenary Reflection
• Lynbrook History: Whittaker Chambers
• The New Criterion: Whittaker Chambers: The Judgment of History
• Adolf Berle notes , reprinted in the Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, 6 May 1953, part 6, 329?330; FBI Summary Report, 11 May 1949, pgs. 225-234.
• The Alger Hiss Case: The Real Trial of the Century