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Article: Farm Proposed for Landmark Status;Whittaker Chambers Property Figured in 1950s Alger Hiss Case
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- The Washington Post
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- April 21, 1988
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The National Park Service has proposed landmark status for the
farm of Whittaker Chambers, whose allegations about infiltration of
the American government fueled the fires of the Red Scare and whose
writings deeply influenced President Reagan and other conservatives.
Forty years ago, in a strange and symbolic incident, Chambers,
then a Time magazine editor, opened a hollowed-out pumpkin on Pipe
Creek Farm and retrieved microfilmed documents that connected Alger
Hiss, a longtime State Department official with an unblemished
reputation, to communist activities a decade earlier.
Chambers, who had renounced his communist past, accused Hiss, a
Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School ...