Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remotely Possible." Shaggy-looking, Oxford-educated Witness Wadleigh admitted that he had been a Communist "collaborator," that he had carried off State Department documents for Chambers and another underground courier named David Carpenter. He had delivered about 400 of them. But he swore that none of the Government's exhibits had been among them. Cross questioned him closely and with relish about "stealing" official papers, a word which obviously displeased Wadleigh, then led him to an examination of the 54 documents in evidence. After a long period of questioning and paper-shuffling, Lawyer Cross drew forth an admission calculated...
...Many of them took pains to put their readers on guard. From the first, the New York Times played the story conservatively and headlined it gingerly, as did the Christian Science Monitor. The New York Herald Tribune early warned its readers of good cause for "skepticism," and the Louisville Courier-Journal scouted the story from the start, bitterly lamenting: "Not the least of the tragedies of our era of mass communications is the power possessed by little men with loud voices and a vestigial sense of decency. Wherever the target is big enough, there the scavengers gather to demonstrate with...
Their accuser, Whittaker Chambers, quietly went back over his old story: that Alger Hiss, a trusted government official facing trial for the second time on a charge of perjury, had fed secret documents into ex-Communist Courier Chambers' spy ring. But to the familiar mosaic he added a few sharp, new fragments...
...passport in 1935, signing the name of David Breen? Chambers admitted that he had. What was Chambers' conception of an oath? "I had a Communist's conception of an oath. That it had no binding force on a Communist." Chambers admitted that as a Communist courier he had been "in fact a traitor." Cross went into his more recent, non-Communist past. Chambers admitted that he had lied when he first told a grand jury that he knew of no espionage activities...
...indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...