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Jay David Whittaker Chambers — Part 1

577 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Feb 10, 1949 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Jay David Whittaker Chambers · 577 pages OCR'd
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Cf FD-72 at yom ae : 22@, FEDEAML BUREAU OF eet! GATION Form No.1 so ‘4 THIS CASE ORIGINATEDAT NEW YORK CITY Ty. . 7. FILE NO. 65~1642 {| REPORT MADE AT . DATE WHEN PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE REPORT MADE BY ele : BALTIMORE, MD, 11/22/49] 9/1 thru 11/15/49 FRANK G. JOHNSTONE PERJURY; ESPIONAGE (R)3 INTERNAL SECURITY (R) JAY DAVID WHITTAKER CHAMBERS, was., ET AL | SYNoPsis OF FACTS: wat Bank account of CHAMBERS at the Carroll County National Bank, Westminster, Md., reflects no withdrawals in sufficient amounts to be useful in purchasing a Ford car in November,. 1937. CHAMBERS does not recall stopping at former Mason Tourist Home at Farmington, Connecticut during August, 1937, trip to Peterbototigh, New Hampshire. Mrs, KATHERINE GODFREY VANDER- LIN, nurse employed during 1935--36 in neigh+ borhood of 1617 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md., located by Seattle Office but could furnish no information of value, CHAMBERS recalls trip probably during Easter week end of | 1935 made by him and ALGER HISS from Wash- ington, D.C., probably to visit JOHN HERR- MANN and his wife, JOSEPHINE HERBST at Ere winna, Penna,, during which they stopped overnight at a tourist home near Center Square, HISS registering them as ALGER and DONALD HISS. Mrs. EDNA M. HARDESTY and Mrs. KATHERING M. HILL of Baltimore, have no in~ formation regarding antique or glassware pur-~ chases by the HISSES in Washington, D.C., dur- ing late 1937. CHAMBERS recalls PRISCILLA HISS probably stopped overnight at Fountain Inn, Doylestown, Penna., during 1935 visit to the CHAMBERS at Smithtown, Penna. Mrs. EDWIN J. HUGHES, ROBERT P. KRAFT and MERLE A. ROEMER, additional former campers at Rigs O'Marlow, Chestertown, Md., interviewed; APPROVED AND SPECIAL AGENT | IN CHARG BO FORWARDED: NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES ce of SO ° COPIES OF THIS REPORT Bureau 2 Newark en | New York(65-14920) (65-3917) (i FBI - PHILADELPHIA (1-SAAG T.J.DCNEGAN)( 2 /Philadelpha AY 2 3 1949 2 Washington Field (65-240 Wes w. _ (74-944) (info) 2 Baltilmore A thee 1K | PROPERTY or PoE) This comtderitiat report and its contents are loaned to you by the FBI and are not to be distributed outside of agency to which loaned, 103381
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