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Prosecution "Witnesses / 53
Cross rapidly questioned Chambers about more inconsistencies in his story. Chambers remained calm and unruffled. Some jury members yawned, others shuffled their feet and changed their positions. Some gazed about the courtroom.
Q. You told HUAC in August 1948, and then the FBI and then the grand jury in October 1948, that you didn't know any spies. So you either lied then or now?
Chambers answered confidently: A* That is right.
Julian Wadleigh, who worked for the Trade Agreements Division of the State Department, had passed documents to Chambers. Hiss and Wadleigh worked in the same building. Hiss worked on the second floor; Wadleigh worked on the first floor. The defense hoped to show that Wadleigh had stolen these documents, since so many of them came from his division.
Q« Did you get documents from Julian Wadleigh? A* Yes, from about early March 1936 until early in 1938. I met him once a month, usually on the street, around 4:30 to 7 P.M. He gave me ten to twenty-five documents in a briefcase. I had the documents micro-
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