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Hiss was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 11, 1904, Alger Hiss was one of five children of Mary "Minnie" Lavinia (née Hughes) and Charles Alger Hiss. Both parents came from substantial Baltimore families who could trace their roots to the middle of the 18th century.
Oct 12, 2024 · Alger Hiss 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.
Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950, following a lengthy espionage investigation by the FBI and its partners.
Nov 13, 2009 · In the conclusion to one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.
Jan 25, 2013 · Alger Hiss, a well-educated and well-connected former government lawyer and State Department official who helped create the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II, was headed to prison in ...
Aug 19, 1998 · U.S. diplomat Alger Hiss found himself in the crosshairs of a former Communist Party member determined to expose him as a Soviet spy, an accusation Hiss denied for the remainder of his life. (Courtesy of FBI)
In 1960, six years after leaving prison, Alger Hiss was for the only time in his life the subject of a full-length magazine profile, which ran in Esquire that December. Its author, Brock Brower (1931-2014), a Rhodes Scholar, became celebrated for his celebrity and political profiles (Norman Mailer, Mary McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy ...
Mar 31, 2019 · Alger Hiss was a former State Department officer who was accused of being a spy for the Soviet Union by a former friend in the late 1940s. Controversy over whether Hiss was guilty or innocent became a national sensation and one of the first public spectacles of the McCarthy Era.
Alger Hiss was a talented young lawyer, Harvard trained, who at the age of 24 received the signal honor of serving as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, the figure he most admired in public life.
Alger Hiss was frequently accused of secretly having secretly forged a pro-Soviet policy at Yalta. In fact, Hiss argued for a tough anti-Soviet stance, as this story based on Hiss's notes from the conference indicates.
