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“Elm Grove” Poem Posted

By David Chambers On 2016.01.03 · Leave a Comment · In Biography

A poem by Whittaker Chambers now appears here, thanks to Marxists.org: “Elm Grove, W.Va., 1925” from the July 1931 issue of the The New Masses.

(If you know the event referenced in the title of this poem, please email to info at whittakerchambers dot org.)

1931 marked more […]

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FBI Vault on Hiss Case

By David Chambers On 2015.07.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has re-posted new versions of its files on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss to its online “FBI Vault.”

For many years, any files about the Hiss Case and other investigations have gone missing from the FBI Vault, without public explanation.

Unlike […]

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Hiss Case: Army Counterintelligence

By David Chambers On 2015.06.29 · 7 Comments · In Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Politics

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Another Hiss: Duncan Chaplin Lee

By David Chambers On 2015.05.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Politics, Review - Book, Reviews

A reviewer argues with author Mark A. Bradley that American spy Duncan Chaplin Lee

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TIME Remembers Grapes of Wrath

By David Chambers On 2015.01.25 · 3 Comments · In Art, Biography, Espionage, Hiss Case, History, Review - Movie, Reviews

This week’s TIME magazine issue includes an article called “‘We’re the People’: John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath at 75” by long-time movie critic and editor Richard Corliss.

Corliss contextualizes the movie and its impact on its 75th anniversary. Remembering that Gone With the Wind had comes […]

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New “Hideo Noda” Entry on Wikipedia

By David Chambers On 2014.12.01 · Leave a Comment · In Art, Biography, Espionage, History

I have created a new entry for Hideo Noda (1908-1939) on Wikipedia.

Noda was a Japanese-American modernist painter and muralist who gained fame in 1933 after he assisted Diego Rivera on his notorious mural “Man at the Crossroads.”

His painting about the

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Empty Pumpkin Papers canisters

By David Chambers On 2014.10.14 · 1 Comment · In Biography

[Empty canisters of Pumpkin Papers microfilm]

Visitors to the Harry S. Truman Library may see on display two of the four original canisters of the “Pumpkin Papers,” currently on loan from the National Archives. They form part of “Spies, Lies, and Paranoia: Americans in Fear,” which runs March 15 […]

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Poland 1939, Spain 1936, Washington 1948

By David Chambers On 2014.09.01 · Leave a Comment · In Biography, History, Politics

Seventy-five years ago today, in the early hours of September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler‘s Wehrmacht began its Blitzkrieg on Poland when the dreadnought battleship SMS Schleswig-Holstein fired on Westerplatte in the Free City of Danzig. The invasion of Poland had begun, […]

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