William Spiegel

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William Spiegel was an American and member of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) who allowed his apartment to be used for photographic work to Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) as part of the secret apparatus conducting espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union in the 1930s which was supervised by Whittaker Chambers.

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  • Whittaker Chambers, Witness New York: Random House, (1952), pg. 421n.
  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press (1999), pgs. 380, 471.