Word: overground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chambers was ill at his Maryland home last week, unavailable to expound the letter. However, a reasonable paraphrase of it in overground language might be: Having received threats from Jake, Chambers warned him to beware of 1) a Soviet apparatus other than Jake's, and 2) the U.S. Government, if there were reprisals against Chambers. Since the UG (underground) was fighting the Ul (another branch of Soviet apparatus) for control of their U.S. operations, Jake might get caught in the riptide between them, as Chambers himself had been. Although President Roosevelt and Attorney General Frank Murphy, in Chambers...