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Many Saw “Secret” Papers
Relevance: 100% Posted on: August 14, 2013
An investigative report by the United Press, "Many Saw 'Secret' Papers, State Aides Say," ran inĀ The Washington Post on December 20, 1948. The secret diplomatic documents which the former State Department officer, Alger Hiss, is accused of handing to a Communist spy ring, were accessible to dozens of persons, both inside and out of Government, it was revealed yesterday. This information was obtained from Government officials whose past or present duties involve the handling of…
British PathƩ
Relevance: 94% Posted on: December 17, 2015
The British PathƩ archive include a selection of period newsreels offering the European perspective on the second American Red Scare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLyJQFAPks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyJpunKjGQs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJetQHJ4EiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9auS11RbUQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIII6PLV4LY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXY2NDv5CqA
Interviews on the Hiss Case
Relevance: 63% Posted on: August 26, 2013
As part of a continuing original research project, this website has made it a practice to reach out to people close to the Hiss case to record and preserve their stories. We present here four of these interviews, each conducted by the siteās executive editor, Jeff Kisseloff. Three are conversations with two Hiss case witnesses who never testified in court, specifically two conversations with Dr. Timothy Hobson, Hissās stepson, and one with an eminent economist…
Timothy Hobson
Relevance: 59% Posted on: December 17, 2015
A Talk by Dr. Timothy Hobson (two parts) At the April 5, 2007 conference on Alger Hiss and History at NYU, Hiss's stepson, speaking publicly on the Hiss case for the first time, delivered a firm rebuke to those who say his stepfather was guilty. "I was there," Dr. Timothy Hobson said. "Chambers wasn't." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zros7pzlwK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDJKJfyTf1o
The Marshall Plan
Relevance: 50% Posted on: February 4, 2013
Of all the worldās nations, only the United States emerged from the war in a strong economic position, and thus the responsibility to end the suffering of its allies - and even of its former enemy - fell to the U.S. Two years after Germanyās defeat, the devastation of World War II was still exacting its toll throughout Europe. Factories that had been bombed or shuttered were still closed down. Raw materials were unavailable. There…
Eric Alterman
Relevance: 47% Posted on: September 4, 2013
In "I Spy With One Little Eye" (The Nation, April 29, 1996),Ā journalist Eric Alterman examined the level of scholarship of some of those saying that released Soviet files and Venona decrypts automatically corroborate the espionage charges leveled in the 1940s against Alger Hiss and others.Ā Here we go again. New York Post editor Eric Breindel, writing in The New Republic and The Wall Street Journal, insists that the recent release by the National Security Agency…
Reinstatement
Relevance: 47% Posted on: December 14, 2015
On August 5, 1975, as The New York Times reported the following day in a front-page story, "Alger Hiss was ordered reinstated to the Massachusetts bar by that state's highest court." It was a unanimous decision by the seven-judge court - and it was unprecedented: never before in the history of the state had a disbarred lawyer ever been allowed to resume the practice of law. The court, the Times story said, did not require…
About This Site
Relevance: 46% Posted on: May 7, 2011
āThe Alger Hiss Storyā website was created in 2001 with grants from The Nation Institute as the online presentation of the case for the defense of Alger Hiss (1904-1996), who was said to have been a Russian spy while part of the New Deal administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. When still only 40, Hiss served as the Secretary General of the 1945 United Nations organizing conference. His federal trial near the beginning of the…
Vitaly Pavlov
Relevance: 45% Posted on: September 3, 2013
Ironically, in the post-Communist Russia of the 1990s, a number of retired Soviet stalwarts, including high-ranking intelligence officers, felt free for the first time to publish extensive memoirs about their lifetimes of service to the Communist regime. Ā Although the Hiss case was never the primary focus of any of these books, some of them included second-hand accusations against Hiss, while others sprang to his defense. One such book wasĀ Special Tasks, the 1994 autobiography of Pavel…
History
Relevance: 44% Posted on: May 7, 2011
The Hiss case has maintained a persistent, restless, troubling presence in modern American history, straddling past and present as a piece of stubbornly unfinished business. Some people who are old enough stillĀ remember the case, with its swirling charges of treason, lies, and Soviet espionage, as a watershed event in post-World War II America that, because it directly and immediately gave rise to McCarthyism, dramatically changed the course of thousands of American lives and the ways…
Mr. Justice Eady
Relevance: 41% Posted on: September 3, 2013
The Judge's Ruling in Vassiliev v Cass The judge in the case, Sir David Eady, a High Court judge in England and Wales, is notable for having presided over many high-profile libel cases. According to The Times of London, he "delivered a series of rulings that have bolstered privacy laws." "He may be just one of more than 100 High Court judges," the newspaper commented, "but Sir David Eady is nonetheless arguably more influential than…
John Lowenthal
Relevance: 39% Posted on: December 17, 2015
āThe Trials of Alger Hissā (1980), John Lowenthal, director Lowenthal, a former law professor and student of the Hiss case, blends archival footage with original research and interviews with Hiss and other participants to re-examine the case and the evidence presented in court. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4r3emGhDE
A Brief Biography
Relevance: 38% Posted on: January 29, 2013
Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland, the fourth of five children. In 1907, his father, an executive with a dry goods firm, experienced severe financial difficulties and committed suicide, leaving the children to be raised by their mother and aunt. Hiss attended Johns Hopkins University and then Harvard Law School, where he came under the influence of future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He graduated from law school in 1929,…
Ongoing Discoveries
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 26, 2013
The Hiss case is one of those highly unusual criminal proceedings where, long after the fact, new evidence keeps coming to light ā often unexpectedly ā making possible new understandings and novel interpretations, many of which clarify or even flatly contradict earlier assumptions. An unanticipated 2005 FBIĀ release is the basis for the first of the two essays gathered here: the Bureau at that point posted on its website 354 pages from its files on Donald…
Krieger and Field (Navasky)
Relevance: 36% Posted on: August 14, 2013
"Allen Weinstein's Docudrama"Ā by Victor Navasky (The Nation, November 3, 1997) PERJURY: The Hiss-Chambers Case. By Allen Weinstein. Random House. 622 pp. Paper $20. NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: The Whittaker Chambers & Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960. Introduction by Terry Teachout. Regnery. 342 pp. $24.95. Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with "Praise for 'Perjury'" ā a reissue of Allen Weinstein's book on the Hiss-Chambers case. Here is Alfred Kazin twenty years ago,…
Victor S. Navasky (1997)
Relevance: 35% Posted on: December 14, 2015
Victor Navasky's review in The Nation of the 1997 revised edition of "Perjury" includes new information about Noel Field: "Allen Weinstein's Docudrama"Ā by VICTOR NAVASKY From The Nation, November 3, 1997 PERJURY: The Hiss-Chambers Case. By Allen Weinstein. Random House. 622 pp. Paper $20. NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: The Whittaker Chambers & Ralph de Toledano Letters, 1949-1960. Introduction by Terry Teachout. Regnery. 342 pp. $24.95. Let's start with the Random House press release, replete with "Praise…
Alger Hiss
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 7, 2011
Alger Hiss was a talented young lawyer, Harvard trained, who at the age of 24 received the signal honor of serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the figure he most admired in public life. A lifelong Democrat and passionate adherent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he abandoned a promising legal career in New York in 1933 to join the New Deal in its first months. In 1936, he moved to…
Lee Pressman (I)
Relevance: 33% Posted on: August 14, 2013
Excerpts fromĀ Lee Pressman's testimony (I) The excerpts that appear below, from Lee Pressman's HUAC testimony of August 28, 1950, deal with Pressman's comments about Alger Hiss and other matters raised by Whittaker Chambers.Ā Mr. PRESSMAN. In the early 1930s, Mr. Chairman, as you may well recall, as well as other members of this committee, there was a very severe Depression in our country. The future looked black for my generation just emerging from school. At…
The Venona Cables
Relevance: 32% Posted on: August 26, 2013
Venona was the code name for a partially successful and for many years top-secret U.S. counterintelligence operation begun in the middle of World War II by a forerunner of the National Security Agency and greatly expanded during the early years of the Cold War. Its aim was to intercept, decipher, and translate coded messages between Moscow headquarters and Soviet intelligence stations in a number of countries around the world. By the late 1940s, U.S. cryptographers…
Max Bedacht
Relevance: 32% Posted on: August 14, 2013
OnĀ Whittaker Chambers (An excerpt from an unpublished memoir) Max Bedacht (1883-1972) was a Communist activist and theoretician. After an impoverished childhood and career as a journeyman, barber, and trade-union leader in Germany and Switzerland, he immigrated to the United States in 1908, where he supported himself as a barber and German language newspaper editor. Bedacht became an early leader of the German Federation of the Socialist Party in California, while continuing to edit German language…