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9 hours ago · Alger Hiss was from an old Baltimore family and was a graduate of Harvard Law School. He was part of the “prettyboy” set that went straight from the Ivy League to positions in the federal ...
3 days ago · Alger Hiss held various positions in the US government. In 1948, he was named by Whittaker Chambers (a member of the US Communist Party) as a communist. Furthermore, Chambers claimed that Hiss was involved in espionage, a much more serious charge. Hiss was eventually given a prison sentence for perjury. He served three years.
1 day ago · In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a high-level State Department official, was convicted of perjury. Hiss was in effect found guilty of espionage; the statute of limitations had run out for that crime, but he was convicted of having perjured himself when he denied that charge in earlier testimony before the HUAC.
2 days ago · I don't think Alger was ever in Cuba and yet was very involved. Blum was a friend of Alger, along with her husband, during the period after Hiss was released from Lewisburg prison and during the separation between Alger and Priscilla, and also the start of the relationship Alger had with Isabel Johnson.
3 days ago · Richard Nixon's political journey began in the late 1940s. He first came to prominence as a U.S. Representative from California, serving from 1947 to 1950. Nixon gained a national reputation with his role in the House Un-American Activities Committee, particularly his work on the Alger Hiss case. In 1950, he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
3 days ago · In return, McCarthy often jokingly confused the names Adlai and Alger, the first name of the convicted Soviet spy Alger Hiss, by stating "Alger, I mean Adlai" in his speeches. McCarthy exploited the fact that Stevenson had defended Hiss as innocent despite all of the evidence otherwise.
1 day ago · Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United St…
