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Hawaii is of more interest to me than to the average "mainlander," as my father, Capt. George H. Wadleigh, was in command of the Philadelphia on the occasion of the 21-gun salute that you mention...
GEORGE R. WADLEIGH...
...McCarthy last week provided the vehicle for a significant footnote to the Hiss-Chambers case. Previously, two members of the Washington Communist ring, Nathaniel Weyl and Julian Wadleigh, had corroborated portions of Chambers' accounts of Communist underground activity. Last week, after receiving a subpoena from McCarthy to appear at the Albany hearing, a 44-year-old draftsman named Felix A. Inslerman became-the third...
...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...
Marzani out, Wadleigh, George Shaw Wheeler and a few others." McCarthy had nothing to do with any of them. Hiss was flushed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Wadleigh, like Hiss, was named by Whittaker Chambers. Judith Coplon (who was employed in the Justice Department) was arrested by the FBI. Marzani was uncovered by the State Department's own loyalty investigation in 1946. George Shaw Wheeler was never in the State Department, but with the U.S. Military Government in Germany; he was denounced by Michigan's Representative George A. Dondero in 1947 and eased out while facing...