For the first 13 days of its second run in Manhattan’s federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as ...

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trials, and fruitless appeals. He selects the testimony he discusses with great care to prove to the world that Whittaker Chambers lied about Alger Hiss. He blames his jail term on a succession of ...

Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again ... “I plead not guilty to both counts,” he said. His trial was set for the end of January. If convicted, the penalty could be up to five ...

Alger Hiss, a former US State Department official, was exposed as a Soviet spy by Whittaker Chambers, a self-confessed former communist. Hiss was convicted and imprisoned in 1950. Ethel and Julius ...