page_title: Ware Group
section_title: Corroboration
hierarchical_section_title: Ware Group / Corroboration
caption_attribution_description: English: w:Lee Pressman (1906-1969), American government functionary, labor lawyer, and Soviet spy.
context_page_description: 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 and then by Whittaker Chambers after Ware's accidental death on August 13, 1935.
context_section_description: In the early 1950s, two members corroborated at least some of Chambers' account:
  1950:  Lee Pressman:  Testified to Congress and confirmed his membership in the Ware Group.
  1952: Nathaniel Weyl: Also testified and confirmed his membership in the group, as well as saying that Hiss had been a fellow member.
  By 1958, Stanford University professor Herbert L. Packer noted that "the others named as members of the Ware group have consistently invoked the fifth amendment when questioned about Communist affiliations."  
  Packer also noted that "Hiss obliquely recognizes the fact of the Ware group's existence, but relies on the post-trial testimony of Pressman to establish that he was not a member. Indeed, that testimony was one of the grounds relied on in his motion for new trial."
  During the 1990s, two more members admitted their membership in respective memoirs:
  1993: John Abt: Wrote in his memoirs that the Ware Group was a Communist Party unit and that he had been a member.
  1994:  Hope Hale Davis: Acknowledged in her memoir that the Ware Group was a CPUSA unit and that she had known most of the people Chambers had named as fellow Communists and unit members.
caption: Lee Pressman during testimony to a U.S. Senate subcommittee (March 24, 1938)
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