Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy (died 1961)

Whittaker Chambers

Defected communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)

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 the Daily Worker, before being ordered to go underground as a secret agent for…