1952 Press Photo Nathaniel Weyl Testified on His Membership in a Communist Cell

Nathaniel Weyl, a free lance writer here, testified Tuesday that in 1934 he had sat in meetings of a secret communist cell with Alger Hiss, former state department official. Weyl told the senate internal security subcommittee that he, Hiss and other former government employees were members of a communist cell organized by the late Harold Ware. Hiss was convicted in 1949 of perjury for denying he had supplied site department documents to a prewar Communist espionage ring. He is now serving a prison sentence. Weyl said that he worked for the agricultural adjustment administration (AAA) when he belonged to the cell. Weyl said that at the time he was a member of the cell it was engaged "purely in Marxist study"

Photo is dated 1952.

Photo measures 5.5 x 7.75 inches.