Jessica Smith was an American editor and activist and was the wife of Harold Ware and subsequently John Abt, both members of the Ware Group run by Whittaker Chambers and whose members also included Alger Hiss.
Jessica Smith ca. 1913-1918
Harold or "Hal" Ware was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. He was employed by a federal New Deal agency in the 1930s. He is alleged to have been a Soviet spy and is understood to have founded the "Ware Group," a covert group of operatives within the United States government aiding Soviet intelligence agents.
Harold Ware circa 1935
Ella Reeve Bloor (circa 1910)
First section of "H.R. Harrow's" agricultural recommendations to the underground Communist Party of America (November 1921)
Soviet Russia, official magazine of the Friends of Soviet Russia (cover by Lydia Gibson)