After more than 40 years of researching the Alger Hiss case, I can say with authority that Mark Kramer was wrong in his March 18 Outlook essay, “Five Myths: Espionage,” when he stated Alger ...

The Alger Hiss case, it turns out, is not quite over. It has been nearly 50 years since the late State Department official was convicted of perjury for lying about working as a Soviet agent, the ...

Alger Hiss also denied the accusations, and added once more that as far as he could recall he had never in his life seen Chambers, said that he did not recognize his photograph, ...

— Newspaper columnist Molly Ivins in 1996 I knew that my Alger Hiss column from a few weeks back would elicit plenty of mail, and I […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Alger Hiss smiles broadly as he is met by reporters after he was released from the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 27, 1954.

Alger Hiss convicted of lying under oath, Jan. 21, 1950 Access to KGB intelligence files after the collapse of the Soviet Union strongly pointed to Alger Hiss' guilt. | AP Photo By Andrew ...

Suddenly the Alger Hiss spy case—that seething and bitter Cold War battle, that interminable intellectual blood feud—has broken out into the open again. The occasion: A Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

And Alger Hiss just had to be one of the scariest people around. When the doorbell rang on Saturday evening, Dexter said, “You answer it. ...

Alger Hiss. Barack Obama. Bill Maher. By way of explanation for those who came in late, for Americans newly emerged from the triumph over evil that was World War II, the name Alger Hiss became the ...

Ad Policy. Alger Hiss, accused of spying, talks with reporters. (Bob Costello / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Donald Trump is “the greatest threat to American universities since the ...

An unsmiling Alger Hiss, right, listens as Whitaker Chambers testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., Aug. 25, 1948.