Alger Hiss : why he chose treason / Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes.
The FDR administration was warned in 1939 that high-level government official Alger Hiss might be a Soviet spy. State Department memos, declassified decades later; show that by 1946 most of the security staff believed Hiss was an undercover Communist agent. Hiss used his authority to obtain top-secret reports outside his area of responsibility.
Record details
- ISBN: 1451655428
- ISBN: 1451655436
- ISBN: 9781451655421
- ISBN: 9781451655438
- Physical Description: xvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First Threshold Editions edition
- Publisher: New York : Threshold Editions, 2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Eden Library | 327.12 S (Text) | 31554009451146 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
