Harold Ware
Hal Ware , son of Ella Reeve Bloor. In the early 1920s Ware and his wife Jessica Smith, tried to establish a “model” collective farm in the Ural mountains using American tractors.
In the 1930's Ware was a CPUSA official in the federal government who founded the Washington D.C. group of United States government employees belonging to the CPUSA underground called the "Ware group". In 1934 the Ware group had about 75 members and was divided into about eight cells. The members had first been recruited into Marxist study groups and then into the CPUSA. Each of these agents not only provided classified documents to Soviet intelligence, but was involved in political influence operations as well.
The Ware group initially consisted of young lawyers and economists hired by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), a New Deal agency that reported to the secretary of agriculture but was independent of the Department of Agriculture bureaucracy. Alger Hiss, Lee Pressman, John Abt, Charles Kramer, Nathan Witt, Henry Collins, George Silverman, Marion Bachrach, John Herrmann, Nathaniel Weyl, Donald Hiss and Victor Perlo were all members. Harry Dexter White, then Director of the Director of the Division of Monetary Research in the United States Department of the Treasury, was also affiliated with the group. The Ware group was the CPUSA's covert arm.
Ware died in an automobile accident in 1935.
Source
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999)