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Not everyone in the family escaped after Whittaker Chambers defected from the Soviet underground in April 1938.
On November 17, 1948, Whittaker Chambers returned for pre-trial examination with Alger Hiss. With him, he brought the “Baltimore Papers.” These papers formed the bulk [...]
Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
Susan Jacoby
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009)
Susan Jacoby is a gifted writer. She is deft and light. As a grandchild of Whittaker Chambers (who was another gifted writer, if rarely so light), I looked forward to Alger Hiss and [...]
Comment on “Declassified Documents Reveal KGB Spies in U.S.” by Alex Kingsbury:
Mr. Kingsbury,
The Hiss Case was a bit more complicated than you say, and the results more conclusive.
During 1948, both Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers lied under oath, but the nature of [...]
Your article “Trial’s Lesson: Just Take the Fifth” (Politics & Economics, March 7) may have stretched matters comparing the perjury cases of Lewis “Scooter” Libby and Alger Hiss. Following its logic, the statute of limitations always protected Mr. Hiss, so his only legal risk in [...]
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