If they don’t know about Alger Hiss, they missed it when the former USSR released his KGB files in the early/mid 1990s. Awarded the Order of Stalin or some-such cr*p for his “work” at Yalta.
I find this liberal doggedness in the belief that Alger Hiss was treated unfairly to be rooted in one of two reasons:
Either they know the truth but still refuse to see it, or they accept it, but think he was advancing the cause of communism, which is their religion.
Neither of those is a good thing.
Last paragraph:
While at the State Department, Hiss attempted so passionate a recruiting of potential Soviet recruits at cocktail parties, that his Moscow-based handlers had to reprimand him. Posing as a representative of American interests at Yalta, Hiss took the opportunity to meet in secret with his Soviet controllers and receive the Order of Lenin medal. In his final days at State, Hiss tried to obtain secret atomic information that was not within the purview of his office.