Pumpkin Papers

[1][2][3] For the Ware Group in Washington (1935-1938), Chambers couriered documents from federal officials to New York City to Soviet spymasters, the last of whom was Boris Bykov.

[4] On August 3, 1948, Chambers testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in Washington, DC, that he had been a Soviet courier in the 1930s.

He named former federal officials in the Ware Group cell, including: John Abt, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, and Alger Hiss.

On November 17, 1948, Chambers surrendered the typewritten and handwritten documents to Hiss' lawyer William L. Marbury Jr. as part of pre-trial deposition in a slander case.

In 1950, Representative Nixon made a Pumpkin Papers speech to Congress, a few weeks after Senator Joseph McCarthy cited the Hiss case, starting McCarthyism.

In 1982, The Atomic Cafe documentary film shows footage of FBI retrieval of the Pumpkins Papers, followed by a press conference with Nixon and Stripling (00:30:00-40).

This group (allegedly a "secret society") formed in New York City in 1977 by Paul Seabury[30] with meetings notionally off-the-record.

[15] Annually on the Thursday closest to Halloween it holds a dinner to announce the Victor Navasky Award for "most disloyal American".

[31] Members have included Buckely, Nixon, Ronald Reagan,[32] Robert H. Bork,[33] James Q. Wilson,[34] and Clare Booth Luce.