The Ware Group was a covert organization of Communist Party USA operatives within the United States government in the 1930s, run first by Harold Ware (1889–1935) and then by Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) after Ware's accidental death on August 13, 1935.
On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers first testified before HUAC about the Ware Group
Alger Hiss testifying (1948)
Lee Pressman during testimony to a U.S. Senate subcommittee (March 24, 1938)
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)