Lauterbach was among a group of several journalists employed by ''Time'' magazine including [[John Scott]] that demanded publisher [[Henry Luce]] fire [[Whittaker Chambers]] as head of the foreign news department because of Chambers unsympathetic views toward Stalinism and Soviet Communism. Lauterbach was ''Time's'' Moscow bureau correspondent. According to [[Jack Soble]], Lauterbach threatened to resign rather than write articles critical of the Soviet Union. Soble recommended Lauterbach for recruitment to the [[KGB]]. Lauterbach was already a concealed member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). | Lauterbach was among a group of several journalists employed by ''Time'' magazine including [[John Scott]] that demanded publisher [[Henry Luce]] fire [[Whittaker Chambers]] as head of the foreign news department because of Chambers unsympathetic views toward Stalinism and Soviet Communism. Lauterbach was ''Time's'' Moscow bureau correspondent. According to [[Jack Soble]], Lauterbach threatened to resign rather than write articles critical of the Soviet Union. Soble recommended Lauterbach for recruitment to the [[KGB]]. Lauterbach was already a concealed member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA). |