C-SPAN 3: Cold War Era Spies – Whittaker Chambers

C-SPAN 3 airs “Cold War Era Spies” with new insight into the spy activities of Whittaker Chambers in the early 1930s, before the Hiss Case.

Program and Airing Details:

• Apr 27, 2014 | 6:30pm EDT | C-SPAN 3
• Apr 27, 2014 | 10:30pm EDT | C-SPAN 3
• May 03, 2014 | 10:30am EDT | C-SPAN 3
• May 04, 2014 | 6:30am EDT | C-SPAN 3

The broadcast airs a panel presentation during the 2014 annual conference of the Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG): The Dueling Loyalties of Cold War Era Spies of the U.S. Government and the Soviet Union:

• Katherine Sibley, Saint Joseph’s University – Chair
• David Chambers, Independent Historian – “Whittaker Chambers and the Global Network of Great Illegals, 1932-1935”
• Jason Roberts, Quincy College – “An Examination of the Rosenberg Grand Jury Transcripts”
• John Fox, Historian, Federal Bureau of Investigation – “The FBI’s Eyes on the Communist World: Morris Childs, Cold War Intelligence, and the Sino-Soviet Spilt”
• Veronica Wilson, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown – ” ‘To Tell All My People’: Race, Representation, and African-American FBI Informant Julia Brown”