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Notes made by Berle after the interview, however, somewhat contradicted Berle's memory: Berle's notes, made public at the Hiss trial, indicated that Chambers had charged that at least three former Government attorneys-Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt and John Abt-were members of an "underground group." Among other items in Berle's notes was the line: "Plans for two super-battleships secured in 1937-who gave-." Also from Berle's notes: "Donald Hiss [brother of Alger], member of C.P. with Pressman and Witt . . ." and-"Alger Hiss, Ass't. to Sayre-C.P.-1937. Member...
...reply to the question: Had he ever been in Henry Collins' apartment in St. Matthews Court? This, Chambers had testified, was the Washington meeting place of the elite Communist group, of which he said Hiss was a member. Had Hiss ever been there when Lee Pressman, John Abt or Charles Kramer were there...
...Shocker. Chambers gave a list of men he described as members of the apparatus. Three of them-John Abt (of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party), Victor Perlo (Wallace leader and onetime key worker for the War Production Board), and Charles Kramer (onetime researcher for Florida's Senator Claude Pepper and West Virginia's Harley Kilgore)-were among those previously named by Courier Elizabeth Bentley TIME, Aug. 9). Chambers had other names: Lee Pressman, onetime New Deal legal eagle, later C.I.O. counsel and currently one of Henry Wallace's left-hand men; Nathan Witt, onetime secretary...
...died, she frequently saw Earl Browder, then the boss of the U.S. Communist Party, and showed him her political information. But her military information, she said, was turned over directly to "the real Russians." Sometimes she and some of her Washington contacts met at the Manhattan apartment of John Abt, onetime Government employee, now a moving spirit in Henry Wallace's Progressive Party (see Third Parties...
...they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers as Beanie Baldwin, a onetime Wallace aide in the Agriculture Department. The Abts and Baldwins formed a cabal...