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==The [[Ware Group]]==

==The [[Ware Group]]==

In 1925, Chambers joined the American Communist Party and wrote and edited for communist periodicals, including ''[[Daily Worker|The Daily Worker]]'' and ''[[New Masses|The New Masses]]''.  Chambers joined the Communist underground in the spring of 1932. In 1933, he was sent to Moscow for intelligence training and when he returned to the United States, his main controller was [[J. Peters|Josef Peters]].  Peters introduced Chambers to [[Harold Ware]], head of the Ware group, a Communist underground cell in Washington that included [[Alger Hiss]], [[Henry Collins]] and [[Lee Pressman]].  Hiss, meanwhile, took a job on the legal staff of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]].  Chambers worked in Washington as an organizer among Communists in the city and as a courier between New York and Washington for stolen documents which where delivered to [[GRU]] ''Illegal Rezident'' [[Boris Bykov]].  He worked in this capacity from 1934 until he left the Communist party in 1938 having been alienated by the [[Great Purge]] of [[Josef Stalin]].  Chambers tried to convince Hiss to leave the party also; the two sat up all night after dinner one night arguing the point.  Chambers recounted how Hiss, tears streaming down his face, refused to break with the Party because of his loyalty to his friends.  It was the fanatacism of Hiss's wife, Chambers believed, that kept him in the party.

In 1925, Chambers joined the American Communist Party and wrote and edited for communist periodicals, including ''[[Daily Worker|The Daily Worker]]'' and ''[[New Masses|The New Masses]]''.  Chambers joined the Communist underground in the spring of 1932. In 1933, he was sent to Moscow for intelligence training and when he returned to the United States, his main controller was [[J. Peters|Josef Peters]].  Peters introduced Chambers to [[Harold Ware]], head of the Ware group, a Communist underground cell in Washington that included [[Alger Hiss]], [[Henry Collins]] and [[Lee Pressman]].  Hiss, meanwhile, took a job on the legal staff of the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]].  Chambers worked in Washington as an organizer among Communists in the city and as a courier between New York and Washington for stolen documents which where delivered to [[GRU]] ''Illegal [[Rezident]]'' [[Boris Bykov]].  He worked in this capacity from 1934 until he left the Communist party in 1938 having been alienated by the [[Great Purge]] of [[Josef Stalin]].  Chambers tried to convince Hiss to leave the party also; the two sat up all night after dinner one night arguing the point.  Chambers recounted how Hiss, tears streaming down his face, refused to break with the Party because of his loyalty to his friends.  It was the fanatacism of Hiss's wife, Chambers believed, that kept him in the party.

Chambers saved a collection of documents he received from Hiss to protect himself and his family against retribution from the secret apparatus as occurred in the [[Juliet Poyntz]] case.  Ten years later they became known as the "pumpkin papers."

Chambers saved a collection of documents he received from Hiss to protect himself and his family against retribution from the secret apparatus as occurred in the [[Juliet Poyntz]] case.  Ten years later they became known as the "pumpkin papers."