page_title: John Abt
section_title: Alleged espionage
hierarchical_section_title: John Abt / Alleged espionage
caption_attribution_description: English: While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities, proofs &amp; reads his statement replying to Pres. Roosevelt's attack on the Committee, Oct. 26, 1938
context_page_description: John Jacob Abt was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA and was accused of membership in the Communist Party and the "Ware Group" alleged by Whittaker Chambers to be a Soviet spy network. Abt denied that the group was a spy ring, noting that the security classification system did not yet exist, and none of the documents he had access to involved national security.
caption: Chairman Martin Dies, Jr. of HUAC proofs his letter replying to FDR's attack on his committee (1938)
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