Whittaker Chambers person
also: Whitaker Chambers, Chambers, the accuser
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Claims (6)
Whittaker Chambers exposed
Alger Hiss documented
“anyone named Whitaker Chambers. And he and the rumpled Chambers seemed to come from some different world that wouldn't have made it easy to believe anyway. But it was Chambers whom Nixon found convincing. He simply knew too many details abo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 32:53
Whittaker Chambers spied_on
Alger Hiss documented
“whose epic duel would become one of the defining public spectacles of the Cold War. Chambers, a senior writer and editor at Time magazine owned by Henry Luce, Mr. CIA adjacent, right-leaning publishing empire had ignited a firestorm by alle…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 29:27
Whittaker Chambers member_of
Time Inc. documented
“In January of 1950, Hiss was convicted of perjury and sentenced to federal prison where he would serve three and a half years. Meanwhile, Chambers, a man who had launched his writing career by working for the Communist Party press, continue…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 47:04
Whittaker Chambers member_of
Australian National Review documented
“And then moving on to none other than CIA adjacent William Buckley at the National Review. For Nixon, the Washington spy spectacle demonstrated not only the moral turpitude of Alger Hiss, but the intellectual bankruptcy of the liberal elite…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 47:35
Whittaker Chambers accused
Alger Hiss host_asserted
“after he got accused of being a Soviet spy by Whitaker Chambers. Imagine that. But if anybody remembers the McCarthy hearings, Alger Hiss was pretty much the poster child for it. Yes. Definitely makes you wonder. So another chairman or pres…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 57:49
Whittaker Chambers spied_on
Harry Dexter White guest_asserted
“When Chambers testified about White before the committee, he was more circumspect than Bentley. He claimed that he had met White from time to time as a Soviet courier, but he conceded that the Treasury economist was always cautious and neve…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 1:04:27
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after he got accused of being a Soviet spy by Whitaker Chambers. Imagine that. But if anybody remembers the McCarthy hearings, Alger Hiss was pretty much the poster child for it. Yes. Definitely makes you wonder. So another chairman or pres…
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not FDR, and took the elevator up to the 15th floor where Governor Tom Dewey, the Republican candidate for president, kept a sweep. The freshman congressman was once again about to demonstrate his value to the Dulles brothers. Nixon carried…
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whose epic duel would become one of the defining public spectacles of the Cold War. Chambers, a senior writer and editor at Time magazine owned by Henry Luce, Mr. CIA adjacent, right-leaning publishing empire had ignited a firestorm by alle…
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during the 1930s, a ring that included Alger Hiss. The resounding denial by Hiss, a former senior ranking Roosevelt State Department official, was so persuasively delivered that the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee on which …
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Nixon recalled his fellow congressmen were in a virtual state of shock. Furious committee members turned on the staff, berating them for not thoroughly bedding chambers before putting them on the stand. We've been had, we're ruined, moaned …
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A striking impression, thin, handsome, smartly dressed, and self-assured. Even Nixon had to admit that his performance was a striking contrast to his accuser's lackluster appearance before the committee. Chambers was short and pudgy. His cl…
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anyone named Whitaker Chambers. And he and the rumpled Chambers seemed to come from some different world that wouldn't have made it easy to believe anyway. But it was Chambers whom Nixon found convincing. He simply knew too many details abo…
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patrons, powerful men like the Dulles brothers, whom Nixon was counting on to advance his own career. When he phoned Foster Dulles at his Wall Street office on the morning of August 11th, the same office where he had been snubbed as a law s…
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Harder had checked with his friends at the State Department who assured him Hiss was not a communist. But Nixon was also aware that he came into the room with his own unique leverage. As the leading inquisitor of the Hiss case, an affair wh…
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through the Hiss and Chambers transcripts. When they were done, Foster got to his feet and began pacing the room with his hands clasped behind him. The brothers realized Nixon was right and they had a problem. There's no question about it, …
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Nixon never proved that Hiss was a card-carrying communist or Soviet agent, but with typical hyperbole, he treated him like he was a mortal threat to the American way of life. The highlight of Nixon's obsession was the pursuit of Hiss came …
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State Department documents, four pages of copied government documents in Hiss's handwriting, and five rolls of classified film, all of which Chambers claimed had been slipped to him by Hiss in 1938. Nixon staged a dramatic return to Washing…
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The documents, which seemed to prove that Hiss did have an espionage connection to Chambers, sealed the diplomat's fate. He was indicted in December 1948 by a federal grand jury for lying to Congress. No mention of that guy having classifie…
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In January of 1950, Hiss was convicted of perjury and sentenced to federal prison where he would serve three and a half years. Meanwhile, Chambers, a man who had launched his writing career by working for the Communist Party press, continue…
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Chambers, too, saw his decision to incriminate Hiss as part of a broader assault on the New Deal-style government and its drift towards socialism. In his 1952 memoirs, witness Chambers conflated the Roosevelt presidency with the evils of co…
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of Hiss's testimony was his insistence that he had never known an individual by the name of Whitaker Chambers. When Nixon later staged a face-to-face meeting between the two, Hiss finally acknowledged that he had known Chambers under a diff…
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The complexities of the Hiss case was further entangled by an interpersonal complication. Although a married man with children, Chambers confessed to the FBI that he had led a secret homosexual life. I'm sensing a theme in this book. He was…
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Under questioning from Nixon, Chambers warmly described Hiss, the man whose life he was in the process of ruining, as a man of great simplicity and a great, gentle, sweet character. It was a far cry for how Nixon viewed Hiss. Chambers recou…
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the diplomat to leave the Communist Party with a wounded clarity of a man remembering a lover's breakup. Quote, we looked at each other steadily for a moment, believing that we were seeing each other for the last time and knowing that betwe…
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As we hesitated, tears came into Alger Hiss' eyes, the only time I ever saw him so moved. He has denied this publicly and derisively. He should not regret those few tears. As long as men are human and remember our story, they will plead for…
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Chambers had never made sexual advances towards him, said Hiss, but his attitude towards me and his relations were strange. He had a hostility to the point of jealousy about my wife. My guess is that he had some obscure love attachment. His…
▶ 55:48
and that a homosexual drama laid at the heart of it. The true story of the Hiss case Nixon revealed to a congressional confidant on board of his presidential yacht a quarter of essentially later is that Hiss and Chambers were both queers. T…
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conducted scores of interviews in a determined effort to find evidence that he was a Russian spy. White's two principal accusers were Chambers and an emotionally unstable alcoholic named Elizabeth Bentley, who had taken Chambers' place as a…
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was not a card-carrying communist, but she had stepped in front of the dazzling newsreel lights. Her story grew more dramatic. White was no longer simply a misguided idealist, but a central player in the Nathan Silvermaster spy ring, feedin…
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When Chambers testified about White before the committee, he was more circumspect than Bentley. He claimed that he had met White from time to time as a Soviet courier, but he conceded that the Treasury economist was always cautious and neve…
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and Whitaker Chambers. And Alger Hiss, who's tried for lying because he didn't know the person, says, well, gee, I knew him under a different name. Yeah. My mind starts clicking here at a moment because Chambers himself, Whitaker Chambers h…