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• Alger Hiss
  • A Brief Biography
    • Brock Brower, 1960
  • In His Own Words
    • A Letter Home
    • “Day at Night” Interview
    • A Liberal Manifesto
    • The New Deal and the 1930s
    • Yalta: Modern American Myth
    • Founding the United Nations
    • Two Yalta Myths
    • The Marshall Plan
    • The McCarthy Period
    • My Six Parallels
  • We Remember Alger
    • Gilbert R. Cherrick
    • Maxwell Geismar
    • Jeff Kisseloff
    • Kenneth Simon
    • Frank Wilkinson
    • Michael Zak
    • Victor Navasky
  • Oral History Interviews
  • Family Photo Album
• History
  • Who’s Who
  • Timeline
  • The Hiss Case (1940s)
    • Charge and Countercharge
    • Hiss and Chambers
      • Chambers Before HUAC
      • The Prothonotary Warbler
      • Samuel Roth
      • The Berle Memorandum
      • The Berle Notes
      • Chambers’ Crisis
    • The Typewriter
      • “The Unfinished Story”
      • The Serial Number
      • In the Trial
      • What the FBI Knew
      • “The Ghost of a Typewriter”
      • Evelyn Ehrlich
      • Daniel Norman (I)
      • Daniel Norman (II)
      • Elizabeth McCarthy
      • Forgery by Typewriter
        • Building a Typewriter
        • “A History of Forgery”
        • FBI Typewriter Forgery
    • The Pumpkin Papers and The Baltimore Documents
      • I. F. Stone
      • The Real World
      • Many Saw “Secret” Papers
      • Francis B. Sayre
    • The Witnesses
      • Lee Pressman (I)
      • Lee Pressman (II)
      • Max Bedacht
      • Jozsef Peter
      • Krieger and Field (Navasky)
      • Noel Field (Klingsberg)
      • Hede Massing
  • The Fight to Clear Hiss’s Name (1950s-1980s)
    • A New Trial?
      • Chambers’ Letter
      • Willert’s Affidavit
      • Gumpert’s Affidavit
    • Coram Nobis
      • Chambers, May 1942
      • Chambers, March 1945
      • Chambers, March 1946
      • Chambers, August 1946
      • Meyer Schapiro’s Testimony
    • FOIA Releases
      • The Advocate, 1978
      • The Nation, 1980
    • Reinstatement
      • Maurice deG. Ford, 1975
  • New Evidence Surfaces (1990s)
    • Interpreting Russian Files
      • Volkogonov (Letter)
      • Volkogonov (Interview)
      • Vitaly Pavlov
      • Alexander Vassiliev
        • The Vassiliev Notebooks
          • “Gorsky’s List” (I)
          • “Gorsky’s List” (II)
          • The “Perlo List”
          • New “ALES” Cable
        • Mr. Justice Eady
    • The Venona Cables
      • John Lowenthal (I)
      • John Lowenthal (II)
      • Bruce Craig
      • Walter & Miriam Schneir
      • Eric Alterman
      • Retranslating Venona 1822
    • The Grand Jury Minutes
      • Chambers and Felix
        • Pelovitz (I)
        • Pelovitz (II)
        • Chambers, 1948
        • Felix Inslerman (I)
        • Felix Inslerman (II)
      • The Spiegel Testimony
        • William Spiegel (I)
        • William Spiegel (II)
        • Anna Spiegel (I)
        • Anna Spiegel (II)
      • Nixon Before the Jury
        • Nixon’s Testimony
      • The Rugs
        • A. George Silverman
        • Meyer Schapiro
        • Rug Receipt
  • The Debate Goes On (21st Century)
    • Interviews on the Hiss Case
      • Fred J. Cook (2000)
      • Elizabeth May (2001)
      • Tim Hobson (2001)
      • Tim Hobson (2002)
      • Tim Hobson at 89
    • The HUAC Files
      • Bruce Craig, 2001
    • NYU Hiss Conference (2007)
      • NYU Transcript (I)
      • NYU Transcript (II)
      • NYU Transcript (III)
      • NYU Transcript (IV)
      • NYU Transcript (V)
    • Ongoing Discoveries
      • The FBI Clears Donald Hiss
      • Hiss’s Indictment — Illegal?
      • Framing a Guilty Man?
• Media
  • Articles and Essays
  • Books
    • Reviews
      • Charles Alan Wright (1952)
      • David Levin (1976)
      • Victor S. Navasky (1978)
      • Jeff Kisseloff (1978)
      • Stephen Jones (1978)
      • David Levin (1994)
      • William A. Reuben (1995)
      • David Levin (1997)
      • Victor S. Navasky (1997)
      • Amy Knight (2000)
      • Jeff Kisseloff (2003)
      • Jeff Kisseloff (2004)
      • Tony Hiss (2004)
      • Jeff Kisseloff (2009) – I
      • Jeff Kisseloff (2009) – II
    • Texts and Excerpts
      • William H. Moore (1987)
      • William Reuben, 2002 (I)
      • William Reuben, 2002 (II)
      • Martin Roberts (2012)
      • Lewis Hartshorn (2015)
      • Joan Brady (2015)
  • Documents
    • Hidden Documents
      • “Stepping Out of the Shadows,” The Washington Post, 2007
      • “Hiss Identifies Yalta Notation,” The New York Times, 1955
      • “The Pumpkin Capers, Introduced and Explained by Alger Hiss,” The Real World (1976)
      • Donald Hiss Exonerated
      • FBI Interview with Harry Martin, Dec 6, 1948
      • FBI Memo Describing Chambers’ Misidentification of “Felix” (December 1948)
      • FBI Memo of Chambers’ March 1946 Statement re His Break with the Party
      • FBI notes on Chambers’ May 1942 Statement re His Break with the Communist Party
      • FBI Notes, Reinterview of Thomas Grady, June 5, 1949
      • FBI Report from July 21, 1949 on Typing Errors in the Hiss Case
      • FBI Report on ALES and Alger Hiss from May 1950
      • FBI Report on Alger Hiss from April 1953
      • Jeff Kisseloff (2007)
      • Letter from Alger to Tony (1953)
      • Letter from Alger to Tony, 1953
      • Letter from Hiss to Stettinius, March 3, 1945
      • Memo re. Alger Hiss in Mexico, February 1945
      • NY Times, March 17, 1955
      • Rug Receipt and Check Mentioned by George Silverman to the Grand Jury (December 1948)
      • Two Letters from Matthew Josephson
      • Typewriter Impressions
      • Vassiliev “Gorsky’s Report” Notes
      • Vassiliev “Perlo List” Notes
      • Vassiliev March 5 Cable Notes
      • Venona Cable No. 1822 from Washington to Moscow, Referring to ALES, March 30, 1945
      • Venona Cable No. 1822 in the Original Russian
      • Venona Document 1579, regarding a State Department Official “by the name of Hiss”
    • PDF Files
      • “Venona and Alger Hiss” by John Lowenthal, from Intelligence and National Security
      • Donald Hiss Exonerated
      • The Shapes of Pavlov’s “Orientation” from DocumentsTalk.com by Svetlana Chervonnaya
      • Vassiliev v. Cass (2003)
      • Vassiliev v. Cass Judge’s Ruling (2003)
  • Audio and Video
    • Audio Clips
    • John Lowenthal
    • Timothy Hobson
    • British Pathé
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