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...cell in Federal government came into being in 1933. Others followed. The secret work of cell-members was sometimes pure spying, sometimes subtle influence of policy by advancing careerists. Accused of being early cell members were Alger Hiss, Harold Ware, Victor Perlo, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, Henry Wadleigh '33, and Harry Dexter White. The last two, according to testimony, were not organizational Communists but were willing to play ball with the "apparatus." Other once-prominent government officials later accused of espionage activities were Harold Glasser, Nathan Silvermaster, V. Frank Coe and William L. Ullmann...
Also there is Lee Pressman, who admitted membership in the Communist Party, and Alger Hiss who has since been convicted...
...Pressman, 47, was another of the able young men who swarmed to Washington in the first days of the New Deal. Former general counsel for the WPA and for the C.I.O., Pressman admitted in 1950 that he had been a Communist, but he denied charges of espionage...
...Nathan Witt, who was the NLRB's assistant general counsel from 1935-37 and then its secretary until 1940, ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Ex-Communist Louis Budenz testified that Smith and Witt were "under Communist discipline" while on the NLRB. Later, ex-Communists Whittaker Chambers and Lee Pressman swore that they had known Witt as a Communist...
...after praising the patriotism of inquiring Congressmen, suggested, "I think the professors and students of colleges should get their ideological education in the Korean trenches, where communists are killing American boys. I do not believe inexperienced youth can judge any ideology objectively, from professors who taught Alger Hiss, Lee, Pressman and other disloyal Harvard graduates...