Whittaker Chambers' defection was in what year?
1929
1940
1936
1938
Answer
In 1938, Whittaker Chambers, a senior member of the Communist Party USA and a Soviet spy, defected to the United States. His testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) implicated numerous government officials and Hollywood figures as members of the Communist Party, leading to the infamous Hollywood blacklist and the Second Red Scare, a period of heightened anti-communist sentiment in the United States.
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