America’s First Whistleblower: and how we view whistleblowers today.

Zach Kehl
5 min readAug 8, 2020
Herbert O. Yardley

Today, we think of famous whistleblowers such as Cheslea Manning or Edward Snowden.

But lets take a time machine back to to 1931 with the publication of American Black Chamber by Herbert Yardley. Just two days after the stock market crash of 1929, Yardley finds himself out of work from his government job at MI-8. There is no need for his…

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