An edition of Alger Hiss
(2012)
Alger Hiss
why he chose treason
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
by Christina Shelton
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Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence analytic failures.
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Communism, Officials and employees, Trials, litigation, Spies, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Soviet Espionage, History, United States. Dept. of State, Biography, United States. Department of State, Hiss, alger, 1904-1996, United states, department of state, United states, officials and employees, United states, congress, house, biography, Communism, united states, EspionagePeople
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Alger Hiss: why he chose treason
2012, Threshold Editions
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Table of Contents
The early years.
Growing up in Baltimore
Hopkins and Harvard Law
Priscilla Hiss
Supreme Court clerk and attorney-at-law
A committed communist.
The new dealer
The Ware Group
Whittaker Chambers
The State Department bureaucrat
Yalta
Fascism and communism
Accused and convicted.
The case
Lewisburg Prison
Attempt at vindication 1954-1996
The evidence.
Testimonies
Venona program
Archival material:
A. hungarian archives
B. KGB archives.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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