Marion Bachrach
Marion Bachrach (
Career
Bachrach was the personal secretary and congressional office manager to Representative
Membership and meeting of the Ware group were highly secretive, and many members eventually infiltrated into higher levels of the
On December 14, 1948, Bachrach testified in Washington, DC, before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC); the next day in New York City, a federal grand jury indicted Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury in relation to the same line of evidence that HUAC was investigating.[2]
In 1951, Bachrach was arrested but got out on bail. (Her attorney was Harold I. Cammer, whose law partners included Nathan Witt and formerly included Lee Pressman, also both members of the Ware Group). Cammer had represented Abt, Witt, and Pressman during the Hiss Case.)[3]
Personal life
Marion Abt married Howard Bachrach, who worked at the
Works
Bachrach wrote several tracts sold to
See also
References
- ^ Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov, The Secret World of American Communism (1995), p. 318.
- ^ Hearings Regarding Communist Espionage in the United States Government – Part Two (PDF). US GPO. December 1948. pp. 1380-1381 (Robert E. Stripling), 1381-1385 (William Wheeler), 1385-1386 (Keith B. Lewis), 1386-1391 (Sumner Welles), 1391-1399 (John Peurifoy), 1399-1429 (Isaac Don Levine), 1429-1449 (Julian Wadleigh), 1449-1451 (Courtney E. Owens), 1451-1467 (Nathan L. Levine), 1467-1474 (Marion Bachrach). Retrieved 30 October 2018.
- ^ "15 Communists' Bail Revoked, Rights Congress' Bond Banned: Bail of 15 Reds Is Revoked". Washington Post. 12 July 1951. p. 1.
- ^ "Marion Bachrach profile". Retrieved March 12, 2024.
Sources
- ISBN 0-300-06855-7
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999); ISBN 0-300-08462-5
- FBI Silvermaster File