A nice aside is to understand that the founder of the ACLU, Roger Baldwin said: “”I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those that produce wealth: Communism is the Goal”
Most of the liberal institutions are founded through efforts of the international communists.
As for Hiss, read Witness by Whittaker Chambers. Wm F Buckley called it the best Biography of the 20th century.
See my Freeppage. I had posted Whittaker Chambers’ letter to his children, and his grandson emailed me and politely and nicely asked me to remove it, which I complied with.
One of the most moving books to me.
When I first read it, I thought it was primarily about politics. When I read it the second time, I realized it was about a man’s search for God.