Alger Hiss was a former State Department officer accused of having supplied the Soviet Union with classified information during World War II. Though Hiss denied the accusations that first became public in 1948, he was convicted of two counts of perjury...

A former U.S. State Department official, Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was indicted in 1948 and convicted in 1950 of having provided classified documents to an admitted Communist, Whittaker Chambers. Hiss became a controversial figure and his case helped...

Alger Hiss's life up to 1948 seemed, on the surface, to be an American success story. He attended Johns Hopkins and Harvard Law School and was a stellar student at both institutions. As he pursued his law career and joined the State Department...

Alger Hiss November 11, 1904 November 15, 1996 Accused Spy Alger Hiss was a prominent public figure when he was accused, in 1939, of spying for the Soviets. His accuser was Whittaker Chambers, a notable journalist and reformed communist. Hiss served a...

Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a U.S. lawyer, civil servant, administrator, businessman, author, and lecturer. In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a government informant and former Communist Party member, testified to the House...

Forward 11-22-1996 Alger Hiss. That Alger Hiss died this week without ever having admitted his service to Stalin is the cause of some comment around the country. Among some, the fact that he maintained his innocence until the end revives doubts about...

Now that Alger Hiss has died historians must be hoping that among his papers he has left a memorandum explaining his role in the most important trial in modern American political history. For the case of USA v Alger Hiss was decisive in shaping...

A Russian researcher, delving anew into once-secret Soviet files from the Cold War, says she has found no evidence that Alger Hiss spied or that Soviet intelligence had any particular interest in him.In a speech to be delivered at a New York University symposium Thursday,...

Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, has died at 96.Rabinowitz died Friday at his Manhattan home, his longtime law partner, Michael Krinsky, said Tuesday.In a 1996...

IB Internal Assessment: A historical investigation of the espionage case of The United States of America vs. Alger Hiss.