Seven decades after Whittaker Chambers exposed the misdeeds of Alger Hiss and others to the public, his name is once again at the center of controversy. Last month, Chambers’ surviving son and seven ...

In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was ...

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Fifty-eight years ago Sunday, Alger Hiss -- the defendant in an emblematic Cold War prosecution once called "the trial of the century" -- began serving a federal prison sentence for perjury. Until his ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Alger Hiss was an Official for the Department of State with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1948 House Committee. Communist Party Member ...