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William Ward Pigman (March 5, 1910 – September 30, 1977) was a chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at
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, and a suspected
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spy as part of the "Karl group" for Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU).


Biography

He was born on March 5, 1910. He had a Ph.D. in chemistry. He worked for the
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and the Labor and Public Welfare Committee. Earlier he had been a professor at the
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. He supplied documents to
Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet u ...
and J. Peters for Soviet intelligence as early as 1936. In his book, ''Witness'',
Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet u ...
refers to Pigman using the pseudonym "Abel Gross". The Gorsky Memo cites him as "114th". In 1954, he was at the Department of Biochemistry, of the
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. He died on September 30, 1977, in
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from a
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.


Works

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See also

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John Abt John Jacob Abt (May 1, 1904 – August 10, 1991) was an American lawyer and politician, who spent most of his career as chief counsel to the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and was a member of the Communist Party and the Soviet spy network " Ware Gr ...
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Whittaker Chambers Whittaker Chambers (born Jay Vivian Chambers; April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer and intelligence agent. After early years as a Communist Party member (1925) and Soviet spy (1932–1938), he defected from the Soviet u ...
* Noel Field * Harold Glasser *
John Herrmann John Theodore Herrmann (November 9, 1900 – April 9, 1959) was a writer in the 1920s and 1930s and is alleged to have introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss. Biography Herrmann was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1900. He lived in Paris in ...
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Alger Hiss Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official who was accused of espionage in 1948 for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjur ...
* Donald Hiss *
Victor Perlo Victor Perlo (May 15, 1912December 1, 1999) was an American Marxist economist, government functionary, and a longtime member of the governing National Committee of the Communist Party USA. Biography Early years Victor Perlo was born May 15, 19 ...
* J. Peters *
Lee Pressman Lee Pressman (July 1, 1906 – November 20, 1969) was a labor attorney and earlier a US government functionary, publicly alleged in 1948 to have been a spy for Soviet intelligence during the mid-1930s (as a member of the Ware Group), following h ...
* Vincent Reno * Julian Wadleigh *
Harold Ware Harold or "Hal" Ware (August 19, 1889 – August 14, 1935) was an American Marxist, regarded as one of the Communist Party's top experts on agriculture. He was employed by a federal New Deal agency in the 1930s. He is alleged to have been a ...
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Nathaniel Weyl Nathaniel Weyl (July 20, 1910 – April 13, 2005) was an American economist and author who wrote on a variety of social issues. A member of the Communist Party of the United States from 1933 until 1939, after leaving the party he became a c ...
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Harry Dexter White Harry Dexter White (October 29, 1892 – August 16, 1948) was an American government official in the United States Department of the Treasury. Working closely with the secretary of the treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., he helped set American financia ...
* Nathan Witt


References


Further reading

* * Allen Weinstein, '' Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case'' (New York: Random House, 1997).


External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pigman, William Ward 20th-century American chemists American spies for the Soviet Union Espionage in the United States University of Alabama faculty New York Medical College faculty 1910 births 1977 deaths Scientists from New York (state)