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Who was Whittaker Chambers?

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In 1948, Whittaker Chambers made sensational accusations of Soviet espionage against former State Dept. official Alger Hiss ; those hearings kept the committee in the headlines and provided the first national exposure for committee member Richard Nixon .

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