The third
Alger Hiss, according to Tony, was the creation of Chambers, the man who claimed intimate friendship with Alger in the thirties.
The charges against
Alger Hiss, for example, still rest primarily on the stories of Whittaker Chambers.
A novelist's characters--Emma Goldman, Sacco and Vanzetti,
Alger Hiss, Lee Harvey Oswald--troop by reduced to memo size.
That's what Nixon hated about
Alger Hiss. As Robert Stripling, HUAC's chief investigator later said, "Nixon had set his hat for Hiss.
(The State Department, even with
Alger Hiss in its senior echelon, had nothing to do with the cancellation.) Trotsky commented that since he had explained, through his lawyer, Albert Goldman, "that my political aims of course had nothing in common with the reactionary political aims of Mr.
At the Carnegie Endowment, for example, foundation president
Alger Hiss was shoveling money to Marxists and one-worlders of every stripe, especially to those promoting the United Nations.
To emphasize the threat of Communists in government from the Eastern Establishment elite, there was the
Alger Hiss case.
Those founders included Soviet dictator/mass murderer Joseph Stalin, Soviet agent
Alger Hiss, megalomaniac President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and a bevy of America-hating New Deal Communists and socialists.
Here is Alfred Kazin twenty years ago, on the original 1978 Knopf edition: "It is impossible to imagine anything new in the case except an admission by
Alger Hiss." Other hyperbolic kudos follows from an impressive and ideologically motley crew of reviewers: Irving Howe, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Garry Wills, John Kenneth Galbraith, George Will, Walter Goodman, Murray Kempton, Merle Miller, William F.
Those intercepted communications, known as the "Venona" documents, proved irrefutably that the Soviet intelligence network included such top government officials as
Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and Harry Hopkins, as well as nuclear scientist J.
One of the more infamous Communist Party members who betrayed America as a Soviet spy was
Alger Hiss. Christina Shelton wrote in
Alger Hiss: Why He Chose Treason that Soviet intelligence sources during World War II "obtained information from nearly 70 American ministries, departments, directorates, committees, and subcommittees in the governmental structure of the United States." In his book The Naked Communist, W.
If you regarded
Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, and the Hollywood Ten as something other than Stalinists, then Russians hacking private email accounts, buying internet ads, and fomenting division in 2016 necessarily comes across as terribly alarming rather than in keeping with a longstanding pattern.