John Lowenthal
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John Lowenthal was a 20th-century American lawyer, civil servant, law professor, and documentary filmmaker, who defended the name and reputation of family friend Alger Hiss almost all his life.
Lowenthal helped defend Alger Hiss (here at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Prisons)
Harry S. Truman, for whom Lowenthal worked briefly, with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at Potsdam (July 1945)
Alger Hiss (1948), lifelong friend of the Lowenthals
Alexander Vassiliev.
Donald Hiss
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Donald Hiss, also known as "Donie" and "Donnie", was the younger brother of Alger Hiss. Donald Hiss's name was mentioned during the 1948 hearings wherein his more famous and older brother, Alger, was
John Lowenthal
…published a rebuttal, also in Intelligence and National Security that used VENONA 1822 to trace "ALES" as working for State (1945), with relatives (Donald Hiss, brother) also working in the federal government, had been a GRU agent since the mid-1930s (with Whittaker Chambers in the Ware Group, had attended the…
Hiss in 1954
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Dean Acheson.