There is certainly no need for another study exploring whether or not Alger Hiss was innocent, as he claimed, or guilty, as many have come to believe. Yet the books keep coming, and their authors have ...

In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent. Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and '40s. Hiss was ...

In 1997, Anthony Lake was ending his term as national security adviser when President Clinton nominated him to lead the CIA. Not long before his confirmation hearings, a Sunday-morning talk show host ...

ALGER HISS WAS ""FIRST RATE IN every way,'' according to Felix Frankfurter, his professor at Harvard Law School. He was tall, handsome, perhaps a bit arrogant but graceful and sure. Voted ""best hand ...

Alger Hiss faced his enemy. Last week he sat under the water-drip torture of cross-examination by Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Murphy, the man who is trying to convict him of perjury. If the ...

This past April saw yet another new title reach the field: Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss by Jeff Kisseloff. A quarter-century in the writing, a ...

From Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss, which was published in April by the University Press of Kansas. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor ...

Many Americans have forgotten, or never learned about, the Alger Hiss case. The Hiss case casts light on why conservatives and liberals are suspicious of each other, on their different attitudes ...

FRIENDSHIP AND FRATRICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF WHITTAKER CHAMBERS & ALGER HISS by Meyer A. Zeligs, M.D. 476 pages. Viking. $8.95. This is not a conventional biography, but something that might be called a ...

NEW YORK — Scholars probing anew into the Cold War's most famous espionage case suggested Thursday that another U.S. diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent code-named Ales. Meanwhile, a ...