# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/whittaker-chambers
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:50:31.491Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/whittaker-chambers"
name: "Whittaker Chambers"
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description: "Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for the New Masses and the Daily Worker, before being ordered to go underground as a secret agent for the Soviet intelligence services. From 1932 to 1938 he was part of the clandestine \"Ware Group\", based in Washington, D.C. Disillusioned by Joseph Stalin's rule and by communism more broadly, Chambers defected from the Soviet spy ring and eventually found employment at Time magazine, where he rose to become a senior editor."
tagline: "Defected Communist spy, writer, editor (1901–1961)"
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profileType:
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  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1901-04-01"
deathDate: "1961-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump