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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.
Jul 8, 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 (pictured), 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...
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.
Nov 16, 1996 · Alger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died yesterday at...
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...
Author Alger Hiss seems remarkably devoid of personal outrage, but he pictures Defendant Alger Hiss as a political martyr in an era of “great, unreasoning fear of Communism.” In the argot of...
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.
Aug 24, 2023 · His name was Alger Hiss. The Hiss Case, as it became known, was a complicated back-and-forth of mystery, intrigue, revelation, misunderstanding, political chicanery and even a suicide attempt.
lger Hiss, the erudite diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer who was convicted of perjury in an espionage case that became one of the great riddles of the Cold War, died Friday...
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