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Maxwell Geismar

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: January 31, 2013

On Alger Hiss Maxwell Geismar (1909-1979) was a noted literary critic and biographer. He was the author of a four-volume history of American novelists as well as two biographies, Henry James and the Jacobites (1963) and Mark Twain: An American Prophet (1970). He was also the editor of several literary collections, including those of works by Ring Lardner, Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman. This piece on Alger Hiss is excerpted from Geismar's unpublished autobiography, The Memoirs of…

Kenneth Simon

Relevance: 12%      Posted on: January 31, 2013

A Recollection Kenneth Simon was an attorney who worked on Alger Hiss's first appeal. When he wrote this piece in February 2000, he was retired and living in Mamaroneck, New York. I'm now one of the last two lawyers alive who worked on Alger Hiss's defense team – and I worked only on the appeal, so I didn't even meet Alger until the spring of 1950, several months after his conviction. I was a year out…

NYU Hiss Conference (2007)

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: November 28, 2015

On April 5, 2007, New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War, which had recently been established to create an international community of scholars interested in re-examining the Cold War and its ongoing impact on American life, hosted its inaugural conference, “Alger Hiss and History.” “When Hiss was accused of spying for the Soviet Union and convicted of perjury,” said the conference’s sponsors, this “helped discredit the New Deal, legitimize the…

Daniel Norman (I)

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: August 14, 2013

The following is an excerpt from Chester Lane's introductory affidavit in support of Hiss's 1952 motion for a new trial, followed by Daniel P. Norman's report. Dr. Norman, a Harvard-educated chemist, in his own affidavit offered the first evidence that the Hiss case typewriter, Woodstock #230,099, had been altered. ... I finally consulted Dr. Daniel Norman, Director of Chemical Research of the New England Spectrochemical Laboratories, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and President of its subsidiary, Skinner…

The FBI Clears Donald Hiss

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: August 25, 2015

By Jeff Kisseloff Alger Hiss was not the only Hiss accused by Whittaker Chambers of having had Communist Party ties in the 1930s. According to Chambers, Donald Hiss, Alger's younger brother by two years, was both a Party member and active in the communist underground. Chambers, however, never charged Donald Hiss with espionage, and for that reason his accusations against Donald Hiss have never received the same level of attention and scrutiny as his more…

The New Deal and the 1930s

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: February 4, 2013

The following is an interview with Alger Hiss, conducted by Judah Graubart and Alice V. Graubart for their book, Decade of Destiny (Contemporary Books, Inc., 1978): Few people held as wide a variety of sensitive government positions during the 1930s (and 1940s) as Alger Hiss. Serving in the Justice Department, on the Nye Committee and in the State Department, he was witness to and participant in much of the formation of America's prewar foreign and domestic…

“The Unfinished Story”

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: August 14, 2013

In 1957, journalist Fred Cook took on an investigation of the Hiss case for The Nation. When the article, "Hiss: New Perspectives on the Strangest Case of Our Time," was published, it took up the magazine's entire September 21, 1957 issue (and was later expanded into a book, The Unfinished Case of Alger Hiss). In this excerpt from the article, Cook examines the typewriter evidence and raises questions about the odd circumstances that led to…

A New Trial?

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: August 26, 2013

Part of attorney Chester Lane’s 1952 Motion for a New Trial in the Alger Hiss case challenged the notion that Whittaker Chambers had remained in the Communist Party until April 1938. Had he left in 1937, as he had previously maintained, he would have been in no position to receive State Department documents illegally from Alger Hiss, or anyone else, in April 1938. Yet the copied State Department documents he produced for the first time…

A Liberal Manifesto

Relevance: 11%      Posted on: February 4, 2013

At their very core, what were Alger Hiss's political beliefs? In his best-selling autobiography, Witness, Whittaker Chambers presented a detailed picture of Hiss as a rigid and unyielding Communist. Hiss vigorously defended himself against Chambers' accusations, but he rarely spoke in public or wrote at length about his own philosophical views. The remarkable essay that follows is, in part, an answer to those who accepted Chambers' charges that Hiss was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist. Drafted when…

David Levin (1994)

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: December 13, 2015

David Levin, celebrated for his studies of American historians and of the Salem witch trials, here looks at some of the documents that Allen Weinstein claimed show Alger Hiss to be guilty, finding that they instead point to the opposite conclusion, resulting in a book characterized by "grave malfeasances." (This is the second of Levin's three close readings and textual analyses of Hiss-case books on this site.) "Gaps in the Narrative of the Hiss Case" by David…

William Reuben, 2002 (I)

Relevance: 10%      Posted on: December 15, 2015

William A. Reuben covered the Hiss appeals and the motion for a new trial in the 1950s. A former national publicity director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Mr. Reuben was the author of The Atom Spy Hoax, The Honorable Mr. Nixon, and The Mark Fein Case. In studying the Hiss case, his travels took him from New York to California to Washington to Moscow, and he obtained thousands of government documents through a Freedom of Information…

The “Perlo List”

Relevance: 9%      Posted on: November 30, 2015

Introducing a Document Missing From The Haunted Wood By Dr. Svetlana Chervonnaya Anatoly Gorsky's "23 December 1949 report to General S.R. Savchenko" – also known as "Gorsky's List" – is not the only puzzle Alexander Vassiliev, the Russian co-author of Allen Weinstein's The Haunted Wood, produced in the course of his London libel suit against Frank Cass & Co., Ltd. to support his claim that he had seen the name of Alger Hiss in KGB (now…

Fred J. Cook (2000)

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Fred J. Cook's remarkable half-century long career in journalism included live coverage of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 and the publication of 45 books. After World War II, Cook (1911-2003), who considered himself a conservative, became a prolific investigative reporter known for controversial and hard-hitting exposés of the FBI (The FBI Nobody Knows), McCarthyism (The Nightmare Decade), the CIA, the military-industrial complex, oil companies, and organized crime, among other topics. Cook’s first book, The Unfinished Story…

Jozsef Peter

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: August 14, 2013

According to Whittaker Chambers, Jozsef Peter succeeded Max Bedacht as the head of the Communist Party underground in the United States during the 1930s. Peter denied this, but was eventually expelled from the country. In 1983, while living in Budapest, Peter wrote his autobiography, which is excerpted here, translated from Peter's native Hungarian. In the portion that follows, Peter discusses Chambers' allegations and the impact they had on his life. At the outbreak of World…

Nixon’s Testimony

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: August 14, 2013

In November 1948, a judge in the libel suit filed by Alger Hiss ordered Whittaker Chambers to turn over any physical proof he had that Hiss had been a Communist. On November 17, Chambers gave Hiss's lawyer an envelope containing copies of State Department documents he said were typed by Mrs. Hiss for transmission to the Soviet Union. He did not turn over several rolls of film that he said were also in the envelope.…

David Levin (1997)

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: December 14, 2015

David Levin (1924-1998), the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia, was a leading scholar of American literature and history, a biographer and a poet. He approached the Hiss case skeptically, convinced at first that Alger Hiss was guilty as charged. Levin offers a critical analysis of Sam Tanenhaus's Whittaker Chambers, questioning the way the author accepts Chambers' own story at face value. (This is the third of Levin's three…

The Serial Number

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: August 14, 2013

The FBI Knew Woodstock #230,099 Could Not Have Been Hiss's Typewriter The 1976 release to Alger Hiss of approximately 40,000 pages of documents, under the Freedom of Information Act, allowed the defense to see for the first time what the FBI and the prosecution had known about the Hiss case typewriter before the trials; what they learned during the trials; and what they later discovered after the trials. Much of this material should by rights have…

The Advocate, 1978

Relevance: 8%      Posted on: February 4, 2013

The following interview with Alger Hiss was conducted on November 2, 1978 by Joseph P. Ippolito, Herbert Travers and Professor Charles P. Kindregan of the Suffolk University Law School in Boston. It was published in the Fall 1978 issue of the school's newsletter, the Advocate.  At the time of the interview, Hiss and his attorneys were preparing for oral arguments on his coram nobis petition – which had been filed earlier that year – to invalidate his 1950…

Who’s Who

Relevance: 7%      Posted on: May 9, 2011

The following is a list of people mentioned on this site.  Click on any name below to jump to a brief biography: John Abt Dean Acheson Bert Andrews Max Bedacht Elizabeth Bentley Adolf A. Berle, Jr. Dr. Carl Binger Joseph Boucot Louis Budenz William C. Bullitt William M. Bullitt Col. Boris Bykov James F. Byrnes David Carpenter Claudie Catlett Perry Catlett Raymond Catlett Esther Chambers Whittaker Chambers Henry Collins Malcolm Cowley Rev. John F. Cronin “George…

Chambers, March 1945

Relevance: 7%      Posted on: August 26, 2013

The following is a memorandum written by Raymond Murphy, the Chief Security Officer of the State Department, recounting his interview of Whittaker Chambers on March 20, 1945. Memorandum of Conversation Tuesday, March 20, 1945, Westminster, Md. The person talking was the liaison man for the Communist Party of the United States with most of the persons listed below and he spoke from personal knowledge, not hearsay. At the time he described the official line of the…

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