Ware Group

Ware Group
LeadersHarold Ware, Whittaker Chambers, reporting to J. Peters
Dates of operation1933–1938
HeadquartersNew York City
Active regionsUnited States with operations including Washington, DC
IdeologyCommunist
SizeUnknown
Part ofSoviet intelligence
AlliesSoviet Union GRU, OGPU, Comintern
OpponentsUnited States Government of the United States
Succeeded by
Parts may have joined network of Jacob Golos and Elizabeth Bentley

The Ware Group was a covert organization of Communist Party USA operatives within the United States government in the 1930s, run first by Harold Ware (1889–1935) and then by Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) after Ware's accidental death on August 13, 1935.[1][2]

  1. ^ Gall, Gilbert J. "A Note on Lee Pressman and the FBI." Labor History. 32:4 (Autumn 1991).
  2. ^ White, G. Edward (2015). Alger Hiss's Looking-glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy. Oxford University Press. pp. 30, 36–38. ISBN 9780195182552. Retrieved 18 August 2019.