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1 de may. de 2024 · He accused Alger Hiss, a well-educated and well-connected former government lawyer and State Department official who helped create the United Nations, of being a Soviet spy. This revelation set off a chain of events that would captivate the nation and shape the course of Cold War history.
Hace 1 día · Kenneth Schmidt examines Richard Nixon’s pursuit of Alger Hiss during the Cold War era and the pro-Communist biases that contributed to Nixon’s downfall. One of the dominant figures in US Republican politics from the 1950s through the 1970s was Richard Milhous Nixon. Nixon was a congressman, senator and vice-president under Eisenhower.
Hace 3 días · In January 1950, Alger Hiss, a high-level State Department official, was convicted of perjury. Hiss was in effect found guilty of espionage; the statute of limitations had run out for that crime, but he was convicted of having perjured himself when he denied that charge in earlier testimony before the HUAC.
Hace 2 días · This includes Alger Hiss and the rest of the 500 or so mainly American traitors he and his co-authors write about. Conversely, Vassiliev himself considers defectors from Soviet intelligence to the Free World to be “traitors”! Vassiliev makes it clear that he would never spill the beans on any known agent who was still living.
1 de may. de 2024 · In the end, it was proved that a drearily correct diplomat named Alger Hiss had been spying for the Soviet Union for years and that warnings about his and similar crimes had been ignored for too long.
Hace 2 días · HUAC is best known for its investigations of Alger Hiss and the Hollywood film industry, which led to the blacklisting of hundreds of actors, writers, and directors.
Hace 6 días · The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers.
