Lee Pressman
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Lee Pressman was a labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, publicly alleged in 1948 to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s, following his recent departure from
Pressman testifies before the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, 1938
Pressman in the Cornell University yearbook, 1926
Barn on tenant's farm in Walker County, Alabama, a symbol of AAA efforts, 1937
CIO leaders meet with UAW president Homer Martin in Washington, D.C., 1938. (L-R): Philip Murray, Lee Pressman, R. J. Thomas, Homer Martin, John L. Lewis, and John Brophy.
Whittaker Chambers
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Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for the New Masses and
Chambers in 1948
Hartley Hall at Columbia University, where Chambers boarded in the 1920s
Juliet Stuart Poyntz (c. 1918), whose disappearance spurred Chambers to defect
Adolf A. Berle (c. 1965): Member of the FDR administration who took Chambers's 1939 report. Initially enthusiastic, he later downplayed the report.