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Chambers Before HUAC
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 13, 2013
Whittaker Chambers' August 7 Testimony Before HUAC (Annotated Version) Mr. NIXON Mr. Chambers, you are aware of the fact that Mr. Alger Hiss appeared before this committee, before the Un-American Activities Committee, in public session and swore that the testimony which had been given by you under oath before this committee was false. The committee is now interested in questioning you further concerning your alleged acquaintanceship with Mr. Alger Hiss so that we can determine…
Jeff Kisseloff (2004)
Relevance: 17% Posted on: December 14, 2015
Jeff Kisseloff responds to a biography of Alger Hiss which purports to explain Hiss's alleged lifelong patterns of denial and duplicity. "Distorted Reflections: A Response" by Jeff Kisseloff G. Edward White, Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy (Oxford University Press, New York: 2004). If A, then B. In a classic example of logic, you can say, "If it's raining, I will bring my umbrella." But you can't say, "If…
Charge and Countercharge
Relevance: 17% Posted on: August 13, 2013
This succinct synopsis of the highly complex Hiss case is excerpted from Hiss's 1978 coram nobis petition to have his case reopened. It was prepared by Victor Rabinowitz, who represented him in this action. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers testified at a hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee that Alger Hiss, while he was a government employee, had been a member of an "underground" group of the Communist Party from 1934 to 1937.…
Building a Typewriter
Relevance: 16% Posted on: August 14, 2013
"The $7,500 Typewriter I Built For Alger Hiss," by Martin Tytell, as told to Harry Kursh (True magazine, August 1952) It began for me in the latter part of March 1950, less than two months after Alger Hiss, convicted of perjury, had implied that he was the victim of a "forgery by typewriter." I was sitting at my desk behind a jungle of papers and typewriter parts, when a tall, lean young man of about 28…
The Vassiliev Notebooks
Relevance: 16% Posted on: November 28, 2015
The following article, “Anatoly Gorsky’s Lessons, or In Search of a Path Through The Haunted Wood,” is by Dr. Svetlana A. Chervonnaya, who holds a Ph.D. in American history; she is a Russian freelance writer, researcher, and TV documentary producer, and maintains an extensive Cold War website, DocumentsTalk.com. The genesis for this article was the 2002 London libel action that Alexander Vassiliev brought against John Lowenthal on the basis that “Venona and Alger Hiss,” Lowenthal’s 2000 article in…
In His Own Words
Relevance: 16% Posted on: May 9, 2011
Interviews With Alger Hiss and His Own Writings This section of the website gathers articles and letters and the draft chapter of a book by Alger Hiss, along with interviews he gave, both on the air and as part of oral history collections: Between 1951 and 1954, Alger Hiss poured forth many of his deepest reflections on life, literature, art, politics, nature, human nature, and the state of the world in the hundreds of letters…
Daniel Norman (II)
Relevance: 16% Posted on: December 11, 2015
Dr. Daniel P. Norman was the Harvard-educated chemist whose metallurgical analysis of the Hiss case typewriter led him to believe the machine had been altered (as he reported in the March 7, 1952 affidavit that Chester Lane submitted in support of Alger Hiss's motion for a new trial). Norman also investigated, as is reported in this follow-up affidavit, dated April 18, 1952, whether the "Baltimore Documents" produced by Chambers "had all been kept together, with…
William Reuben, 2002 (II)
Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 15, 2015
In another chapter from William A. Reuben's book on the Hiss case, he examined the documents that Whittaker Chambers said he received from Alger Hiss, and the circumstances under which Chambers made them public. "The Baltimore Documents" An Excerpt From The Crimes of Alger Hiss By William A. Reuben The result on Election Day, 1948, was an unpleasant surprise for me and all Republicans. It really jolted Whittaker Chambers. A few days after the election…
News
Relevance: 15% Posted on: May 7, 2011
Newly revised and enhanced, the Alger Hiss Story website has special new features as well as a newly searchable, reader-friendly format: front-page news; extensive excerpts from the Alger Hiss Oral History Collection; the complete transcript of the landmark "Alger Hiss and History" conference, a day-long scholarly convocation at New York University in 2007; and a greatly expanded Media section with more images, book excerpts, and a video collection that now includes John Lowenthal's 1980 feature-length…
Reviews
Relevance: 15% Posted on: December 10, 2015
The section of the website gathers together a series of book reviews, many of them extended commentaries, close readings, textual deconstructions, and in-depth analyses of books often referred to throughout the site: Charles Alan Wright on Witness, Saturday Review (1952) David Levin on Witness, Six Crises and In the Court of Public Opinion, The Virginia Quarterly Review (1976) Victor S. Navasky on Weinstein’s Perjury in The Nation, (1978) Jeff Kisseloff on Weinstein’s use of evidence in…
Walter & Miriam Schneir
Relevance: 15% Posted on: September 3, 2013
"Cables Coming in from the Cold," by Walter Schneir and Miriam Schneir (The Nation, August 21, 1995) Nearly four years ago, soon after the initial public release by the National Security Agency (NSA) of its long-secret Venona archive--decoded Soviet intelligence messages transmitted by telegraphic cable to and from Moscow during World War II - we predicted in these pages that "historians of the Cold War will be examining these documents...for a long time." We should have…
Felix Inslerman (II)
Relevance: 14% Posted on: September 3, 2013
ENTIRE TESTIMONY OF FELIX A. INSLERMAN Annotated Version Before the Permanent Subcommitteee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate February 19, 1954 Joseph R. McCarthy, Chairman Roy M. Cohn, Counsel The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Inslerman, I want to thank you very much. I know the course you are following today is difficult, extremely difficult for any man who has been involved in espionage, to come forward and tell the truth frankly. It…
Timeline
Relevance: 14% Posted on: May 9, 2011
1904 November 11 - Alger Hiss is born in Baltimore, Maryland. 1906 December 15 - Donald Hiss, Alger's younger brother, is born, also in Baltimore. 1907 April 7 - Hiss's father, Charles Alger Hiss, dies in Baltimore. 1924 Summer - Hiss meets Priscilla Harriet Fansler (b. October 13, 1903), a Bryn Mawr graduate, on a student boat trip to Europe. However, she soon marries Thayer Hobson. 1926 June - Alger Hiss graduates from Johns Hopkins University. September - Hiss enters Harvard Law…
The McCarthy Period
Relevance: 14% Posted on: February 4, 2013
Alger Hiss's 1980 reflections on the McCarthy period of the 1950s, written for Barrister magazine, a publication of the American Bar Association. After examining the roots of witch hunting, Hiss raises the question, "Could it happen again?" For more than 20 years I have lectured and taken part in seminars at a number of high schools, colleges and universities. In the late '50s and early '60s, there was a good deal of student interest in…
“The Ghost of a Typewriter”
Relevance: 13% Posted on: August 14, 2013
An article on Richard M. Nixon's book Six Crises, by Fred J. Cook (The Nation, May 12, 1962) Richard M. Nixon's assertion in his new book, Six Crises, that the FBI found the typewriter it says it didn't find in the Alger Hiss case may now be matched with one other piece of newly discovered evidence - the fact that the House Committee on Un-American Activities, in an official report written in 1951, commended the FBI…
Jeff Kisseloff
Relevance: 13% Posted on: January 31, 2013
Working For – and With – Alger Hiss Jeff Kisseloff, the managing editor of this site, is the author of three oral history books, Generation on Fire: Voices of Protest from the 1960s, an Oral History; You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan From the 1890s to World War II; and The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961. He is a recognized expert on the Hiss-Chambers affair and is the author of…
David Levin (1976)
Relevance: 13% Posted on: December 13, 2015
David Levin (1924-1998), who was Thomas Jefferson Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, discusses and compares three firsthand accounts of the Hiss Case: Richard Nixon's Six Crises, Whittaker Chambers' Witness and Alger Hiss's In the Court of Public Opinion, while also explaining how and why he came to believe in Hiss's innocence. Levin's essay was originally published in 1976 in the Virginia Quarterly Review. (This is the first of Levin's three…
John Lowenthal (I)
Relevance: 13% Posted on: September 3, 2013
"Venona and Alger Hiss" by John Lowenthal, from Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Autumn 2000) The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought. - Molly Ivins, columnist (1996)[1] The Hiss case blazed into public life in 1948 and promptly became an icon of the Cold War in America. It catapulted Richard…
Martin Roberts’ Secret History
Relevance: 12% Posted on: December 19, 2015
Secret History, a book many years in the making, scrutinizes contested verdicts and miscarriages of justice, with special emphasis on the Hiss case. Martin Roberts, an archivist and British citizen living in Belgium, began his research while still in law school. His book, called “meticulous” and “compelling” by Kirkus Reviews, offers an in-depth analysis of Whittaker Chambers’ veracity, and the first extensive, critical reappraisal of Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case. That 1978 book by Allen Weinstein…
Framing a Guilty Man?
Relevance: 12% Posted on: December 5, 2015
Stephen W. Salant, professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a longtime student of the Hiss case, in 2010 published "Successful Strategic Deception: A Case Study," a highly original online essay about the case based on years of research. Deception raised a never-before-explored possibility that, operating behind the scenes, the U.S. Army’s Counterintelligence Corps, convinced of Hiss’s guilt but concerned that he might be acquitted, had authorized a “dirty tricks,” clandestine disinformation campaign…