WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' FARM IN JEOPARDY
By Cliff Kincaid
February 6, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
A library featuring the personal papers of anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers is being planned on the site of his farm in Maryland. Unfortunately, local authorities are considering
a water project that could damage part of the property. Chambers’ son John is asking for help to save the farm. Time is of the essence.
Whittaker Chambers blew the whistle on the Communist penetration of our government and exposed Soviet spy Alger Hiss. Hiss became the first acting secretary-general of the United Nations, causing it to be dubbed “the house that Hiss built” He also advised President Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta conference, which defined post-World War II Europe and betrayed Eastern European nations to Soviet control.
The farm is the scene of the famous pumpkin patch where the “pumpkin papers” had been hidden by Chambers before being turned over to the House Committee on un-American Activities. The “papers” were actually microfilm copies of secret and stolen State Department documents given to Chambers by Hiss for transmission to the Soviet Union. They constituted absolute proof of Hiss’s guilt. The patch today is part of the lawn.
The Whittaker Chambers farm, located in Westminster,
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