Whittaker Chambers, a leader in the Soviet underground apparatus in Washington from 1934 until he repudiated communism in 1938, confirms Dr. Wirt�s charge about the attitude of the revolutionaries toward the New Deal. In his book Witness, Chambers relates that all the New Dealers he knew were Communists or near Communists who regarded the New Deal as an instrument . . .
This courageous, Dostoevskian genius . . . tells the story of the amazing Ware cell in the government, which was one of at least four Soviet espionage rings known to have operated in Washington, only two of which have been exposed.2 The Ware group, organized by the late Harold Ware, son of Ella Reeve (Mother Bloor), was, according to Chambers, �one of the most formidable little fifth columns in history, whose influence for evil, widening outward long after he was dead, would also be felt in the crash of China and the Carthaginian mangling of Europe.�
When J. Peters, Hungarian boss of the communist underground, took Chambers to Washington, he made this exultant comment: �Even in Germany under the Weimar Republic the party did not have what we have here.�
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee received information about the Ware group from Chambers, Nathaniel Weyl, another ex-Communist, and a third witness whose testimony was not published. The subcommittee�s report of August 24, 1953, sets forth the names of its leaders, and the jobs they held, beginning in 1933, [Witt, Pressman, Abt, Kramer, Collins, Perlo, A. Hiss, D. Hiss.]
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In 1939, after his desertion from the communist underground, Chambers desired to tell what he knew about it to the American government. (etc).
2. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee Report, August 24, 1953.