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Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
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Jul 8, 2024 · Alger Hiss (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York) was a former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of ...
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Alger Hiss was a former government official who was convicted of perjury in 1950 for lying about his involvement in communism and espionage. The FBI investigated his case and found evidence of his ties to the Soviets, based on testimony from Whittaker Chambers and documents from the "Pumpkin Papers".
Nov 13, 2009 · Learn about the trial and conviction of Alger Hiss, a former State Department official accused of being a Soviet spy. Find out how he denied the charges, what evidence was presented against him, and how the case sparked a political controversy.
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Nov 27, 2017 · The Case of Alger Hiss. It was one of the most notorious spy cases in US history. In November 1954 former US diplomat Alger Hiss was released from jail for allegedly lying about being a Soviet agent.
Nov 16, 1996 · Alger Hiss, the Harvard-trained lawyer-diplomat whose conviction in 1950 for denying under oath that he turned over State Department papers to a Soviet agent shattered his promising career and ...
Founding the United Nations. This wide-ranging 1990 interview with Alger Hiss is part of the United Nations Oral History Collection, and was made available to this website courtesy of the United Nations. It covers the ground-breaking events in which Hiss took part, and the people with whom he worked. The interviewer, James S. Sutterlin, was the ...
