Samuel Gardner Welles (1913–1981) was an American journalist for TIME magazine, author of Profile of Europe, and connected Whittaker Chambers to Raymond E. Murphy, whose investigation helped lead to Alger Hiss’s departure from the State Department.
[2] According to Chambers, "Samuel Gardner Welles... was the son of a reverend Episcopal clergyman (died 1940[5]) and brother of bishop.
[9] By the late 1930s, Welles was part of a group of young writers, many of them Herald Tribune employees and led by Isabel Paterson.
In 1942, Welles put special investigator Raymond E. Murphy in touch with his TIME colleague Whittaker Chambers.
"[16] In 1954, he was Chicago bureau chief for TIME, during which period he interviewed the Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher.