“The Pumpkin Papers: Key Evidence in the Alger Hiss Trials”
http://www.famous-trials.com/algerhiss/650-keyevidence
I was swayed by a TV dramatization of the prosecutor’s summation in the Hiss trial, that is to say, one portion of it, in which the prosecutor made the analogy of Hiss and Chambers to a giraffe and a hippopotamus, who had known each other in the “old days” in the jungle. This hinged on testimony of Hiss that he “did not remember” interactions with Chambers, AFAIR.
The prosecutor set this up, then described the Hippopotamus asking the Giraffe if he remembered him, which the Giraffe repeatedly denied, until the Hippopotamus finally pinned him down, and the Giraffe exclaimed, ( in the words of the prosecutor ... ) “Oh, I remember you!”
So you see, Hiss wasn’t coming clean.