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3 days ago · Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of spying for the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s. He was convicted of perjury in 1950, but his guilt or innocence is still debated based on different sources of evidence.
3 days ago · When Alger Hiss, a well-placed official in the U.S. State Department, was revealed to be a Soviet spy in the late 1940s, it shook Congress (and the American public) hard enough for them to take the matter of Soviet penetration of U.S. governmental entities seriously.
4 days ago · Are We About to Replay the Alger Hiss Affair? by Roger Kaplan. The Spectator P.M. Podcast. The Spectator P.M. Ep. 78: US Government Makes Move to Prevent China From Blowing Up Cars.
4 days ago · Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin's assurances that he would...
2 days ago · Whittaker Chambers—an American ex-Communist who became famous for his cooperation with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), where he implicated Alger Hiss—published an anti-communist memoir, Witness, in 1952. It became "the principal rallying cry of anti-Communist conservatives".
3 days ago · Chambers considered talk of a Knowland endorsement right-wing escapism. While a radical counterrevolutionary in his intellectual life, Chambers liked Vice President Richard Nixon—his ally in the Alger Hiss case —and thought right-wing politics needed to make peace with existing structures to be meaningful. He conveyed those concerns to Buckley.
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1 day ago · KGB. The Committee for State Security (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности, romanized: Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti, IPA: [kəmʲɪˈtʲed ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn (ː)əj bʲɪzɐˈpasnəsʲtʲɪ]), abbreviated as KGB (Russian: КГБ; listen ⓘ), was the main security agency of the Soviet Union ...
