Alger Hiss’s Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy, by G. Edward White. Oxford University Press. 297 pages. $30. The facts in the case of United States of America v. Alger Hiss have ...
As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone’s mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger ...
He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he ...
After more than 40 years of researching the Alger Hiss case, I can say with authority that Mark Kramer was wrong in his March 18 Outlook essay, “Five Myths: Espionage,” when he stated Alger Hiss was a ...
In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a former State Department employee and Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was convicted of perjury after being charged with spying for the ...
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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Oct. 29 The New York Times reported that Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, in ...
An author who has researched the Cold War's most famous espionage case said new evidence suggests another U.S. diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent who fed U.S. secrets to Moscow. The claim ...
An author who has researched the Cold War's most famous espionage case said new evidence suggests another US diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent who fed US secrets to Moscow. The ...