Alger Hiss
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Alger Hiss was an American government official who, in 1948, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perj
Hiss in 1965
Hiss in the Johns Hopkins University yearbook, 1926
Hiss (front row, second from left) with Edward Stettinius (front row, far left) in Yalta c. January 1945
President Harry S. Truman addresses the first UN Conference in San Francisco (from left: unknown person, Truman, Harry Vaughan, Edward Stettinius, Hiss) on June 26, 1945.
Whittaker Chambers
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Whittaker Chambers was an American author, journalist, and spy. After dropping out of Columbia University, Chambers joined the open Communist Party in 1925. He wrote and edited for the New Masses and
Alger Hiss
…Nations, both as a U.S. State Department official and as a UN official. In later life, he worked as an author, lecturer and salesman. On August 3, 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party USA member, testified under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Hiss had secretly been a…
Chambers in 1948
Hartley Hall at Columbia University, where Chambers boarded in the 1920s
Juliet Stuart Poyntz (c. 1918), whose disappearance spurred Chambers to defect
Adolf A. Berle (c. 1965): Member of the FDR administration who took Chambers's 1939 report. Initially enthusiastic, he later downplayed the report.