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A Visit to the Farm of Whittaker Chambers
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America's Survival, Inc. President Cliff Kincaid visits with John Chambers, son of American patriot and anti-communist hero Whittaker Chambers, in front of the Chambers farm. John Chambers revealed to Cliff that he intends to build a library near the Whittaker Chambers farm to house his father's personal papers and books. The farm, located in Westminster, Maryland, is a national historic landmark.
Chambers left the Communist Party in order to expose State Department official Alger Hiss and others as communists and Soviet agents. Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950 for denying he was a Soviet spy and sentenced to prison, but the conviction came after much of Hiss’s damage had been done. By then, the "House that Hiss Built," the United Nations, had been firmly established. Chambers died in 1961; Hiss in 1996.
Whittaker Chambers was posthumously given the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Ronald Reagan. Chamber's book Witness is still available from Regnery Publishing.
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The farm of Whittaker Chambers.
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| The site of the former pumpkin patch where the "pumpkin papers" were stored by Whittaker Chambers. The "pumpkin papers," stolen and secret State Department documents given to Chambers by Hiss and hidden in the form of microfilm in a hollowed-out pumpkin at Chambers’ farm, were absolute proof of Hiss’s role as a Soviet spy |
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