<![CDATA[ At noon on Monday, August 2, 1948, a 47-year-old senior editor for Time magazine named Whittaker Chambers boarded a train in New York that was headed for Washington. Chambers was terrified. Two days earlier, he had been issued a subpoena from the House Un-American Activities Committee: He was being called to testify about communist infiltration into the United States government. What happened next would alter United States history and become a touchstone for people who defend freedom. ]]>