John Theodore Herrmann was a writer in the 1920s and 1930s and is alleged to have introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss.
11 Facts About John Herrmann
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John Herrmann lived in Paris in the 1920s, as part of its famous expatriate American writers' circle, when he met his first wife, Josephine Herbst in 1924.
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John Herrmann fought the charge in a jury trial in New York City in October 1927 but ultimately lost.
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John Herrmann soon was a part of the Ware group, a secret apparatus of the CPUSA and Comintern in Washington, DC, which supplied classified information to Soviet intelligence.
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From early 1934 until the summer of 1935, John Herrmann was a paid courier for the CPUSA, delivering material emanating from the secret cells of sympathetic government employees being cultivated by Hal Ware to New York City.
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John Herrmann was the person who introduced Whittaker Chambers to Alger Hiss.
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John Herrmann served in the United States Coast Guard, enlisting in New Orleans, in World War II.
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John Herrmann was placed under surveillance and questioned many times in Mexico by the FBI.
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John Herrmann applied in March 1949 to Mexico City College as a speech and drama major but attended for only the Fall 1950 and Winter 1951 quarters.
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John Herrmann died near the Pacific Ocean in April 1959, at the Hotel Navidad, in Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, Mexico from a heart attack.
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John Herrmann is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Lansing, Michigan.