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The Federalist
April 27, 2018
He identified former State Department official Alger Hiss as a member of his spy network. Hiss, a graduate of Harvard Law School, had clerked for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. After his service in the State Department, he became president of the Carnegie Endowment for InternationalÃâà...
The Cipher Brief
April 20, 2018
Bottom Line: The Kremlin employs various often overlapping and competitive security and intelligence services to create multiple sources of intelligence, encourage risk-taking and keep a wary eye on each other. This has enabled Russian President Vladimir Putin to consolidate power by playing agenciesÃâà...
A Magazine of American Culture
April 5, 2018
Not long after the conviction of Alger Hiss, Professor James Burnham, Karl Hess, and I met in my apartment on Riverside Drive to discuss a matter that had concerned us for some time. Jim Burnham was then working on his book The Web of Subversion. Karl, like me, was a Newsweek editor, and he hadÃâà...
Terre Haute Tribune Star
March 30, 2018
He fought against communists, but his true adversaries always seemed to be those to the manor born — Alger Hiss, the Kennedys, Nelson Rockefeller. His fights became exercises in self-laceration. Accused of personally profiting from a special campaign fund when he was Dwight Eisenhower's runningÃâà...
History News Network (HNN)
March 29, 2018
A goodly number of these secret agents, of whom Alger Hiss is only the most famous, reached senior policy-making positions in the FDR administration. In Kramer's telling, however, all they really did as they inched closer and closer to the Secretary of the Treasury or State or the President was filchÃâà...
American Spectator
March 28, 2018
A goodly number of these secret agents, of whom Alger Hiss is only the most famous, reached senior policy-making positions in the FDR administration. In Kramer's telling, however, all they really did as they inched closer and closer to the Secretary of the Treasury or State or the President was filchÃâà...
Politico
November 26, 2017
After serving 44 months in prison for having lied under oath, Alger Hiss, a onetime high-level State Department official, was released on this day in 1954. Immediately upon his regaining his freedom, Hiss declared that he wished to “reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought againstÃâà...
Salon
August 27, 2017
But how would they react to Alger Hiss of all people? I'm scared of confrontations. I'd remembered the name because my civics book in the ninth grade had said that he was the most dangerous traitor in the history of the United States. He was America's Judas Iscariot, and the glee in Dexter's voice told meÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
December 31, 1999
In The Hellfire Club, McCarthy is a monster, ruining lives with careless lies. But Tapper, like the anti-Communist liberals of that day, goes out of his way to stress that the Communist conspiracy was real and that some of the accused — the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss — were guilty. “McCarthy's a drunk butÃâà...
DC Theatre Scene
December 31, 1999
Similarly, in playwright Arthur Miller's own time, an honest effort to find American government officials who were on the Soviet payroll (such as Alger Hiss), instead of a headline-generating effort to tar anyone who expressed sympathy for or even interest in communism or socialism back when the US andÃâà...
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