Sam Tannenhaus

I can't do otherwise.

So then they say, all right, we get it.

We believe you.

Nixon and the others are saying, there are headlines everywhere.

This is dominating all the news.

But you've got to prove he's a communist.

Okay, now Chambers is afraid that he's not going to make his case and also the other side is going to come after him.

He remembers something, that when he defected from the party before 1939, in 1938, he kept some material he had, he called it his life preserver, and he gave it to a relative of his wife's.

She kept it in a dumbwaiter in Brooklyn.

Sheep.

And he goes with this young guy.

They dig through the dumb waiter, and they have a manila envelope.

And inside it are documents.

And those are typed documents that are secret classified information.

And by this time, Hiss has made the stupid mistake of suing Chambers for slander.

Chambers has to defend himself.

And he looks at his lawyer and he says, well, I've got something different for you now.

This is how one of my chapters ends.

And he says, what is it?

Chambers says, espionage.