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          Whittaker Chambers joined the Communist Party in Almost immediately he became a functionary of the party by obtaining a post on the Daily Worker, of.

        1. Whittaker Chambers was an American writer and intelligence agent.
        2. Whittaker Chambers died 52 years ago today: reprinted here is TIME magazine's obituary for its former senior editor, “Historical Notes.
        3. Chambers was convinced that his brother had committed suicide largely out of despair with the world—a despair he himself soon came to share.
        4. Whittaker Chambers was born in Philadelphia and raised on Long Island.

          5. Whittaker Chambers died 52 years ago today: reprinted here is TIME magazine's obituary for its former senior editor, “Historical Notes..

          The Horrors of Chambers

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          Albert Gates

          Fact and Fantasy in Chambers’ Revelations

          (September 1952)

          From The New International, Vol.

          XVIII No. 5, September–October 1952, pp. 245–264.
          Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).

          The abundant skill of Whittaker Chambers as a writer is revealed in the way he has dramatized his career as a second-rate Stalinist functionary in the legal as well as the illegal apparatus, making himself appear as a star performer.

          Without the fortuitous circumstances of the Hiss case, however, Chambers could never have been catapulted to such public fame. Yet, in less skillful hands, the story of his “ordeal” in the long pages of The Witness[1] might well have been a bore.

          Despite the chiaroscuro tones of this utterly humorless work, and the a