[iowamark]

http://www.amazon.com/Perjury-Hiss-Chambers-Case-Allen-Weinstein/dp/067977338X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Weinstein

[a fool in paradise]

To quote the Obama administration flackmen, what difference does it make at this point in time anyhow???

[Verginius Rufus]

He wrote the book before the information from the Soviet archives was available.

The Nation would keep maintaining Hiss' innocence even if Hiss himself had come clean and admitted his guilt.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[cornelis]

I’m still hoping to see the story of Chambers on film. Josh Acklund might have played Chambers well.

[Fiji Hill]

Weinstein also worte The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America--The Stalin Years (New York: Random House, 1999). He researched it during the brief period when the KGB's archives were open to Western scholars.

[nwrep]

Wow, Congratulations to The New York Times for not getting swayed by their legendary institutional sympathy for one of the left's most venerated personalities, and for clearly describing the coup de grace that Weinstein's book delivered to Hiss' reputation.

Before there was Mumia, there was Alger Hiss.

[StoneWall Brigade]

RIP

[fishtank]

Bump.

Last night, I watched the video of William F. Buckley interviewing Allan Weinstein on “Firing Line” .... it was listed as being recorded in 1978.

Buckley helped me learn at least one new vocabulary word, too.... Haha!!! (it was “etiology”).

[IndyTiger]

I heard Alger Hiss give a lecture at Ohio University in the mid-70's. Of course, this was just after Watergate when Nixon-bashing was at its peak.

Hiss avoided talking about his specific case and instead spoke in generalities about current foreign policy. When asked by a questioner about his case, Hiss went on about how the evidence they got on him was acquired illegally, blah, blah, blah.

Hiss never came out and said "I was framed!", instead, he used lawyerly evasions to defend himself.

I walked away from that lecture convinced that Hiss was guilty of spying as accused.