Alger Hiss was a U.S. State Department official involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Evidence revealed after Hiss's conviction has added a variety of information to the case, and the question of his guilt or innocence remains controversial. Wikipedia
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Alger Hiss was born in 1904, the fourth of five children in an upper-middle-class Presbyterian family in Baltimore. www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/1.html
The VENONA Files and the Alger Hiss Case The VENONA files are decoded cables sent from Soviet agents in the United States to Moscow. www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissVenona...
Alger Hiss (circled) listens as Whittaker Chambers testifies before a House Un-American Activities Committee meeting on August 25, 1948. www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hiss.html
