Alger Hiss, Academic Vampire

campusreportonline.net ^ | August 28, 2007 | Malcolm Kline

[Kaput]

Alger Hiss, Academic Vampire by: Malcolm A. Kline, August 28, 2007

The liberal cadres that defended him for decades have thinned since career diplomat Alger Hiss was convicted of perjuring himself against accusations that he spied for the Soviet Union. In large part, this turnaround stems from mounting evidence of his guilt as can be seen in:

• Declassified congressional hearings originally held in executive session;

• Federal agency reports once classified that were unsealed when they hit 50 years of age; and

• Communist International and KGB files in the Soviet Union and its former satellite nations opened to the West when the Cold War ended.

Virtually alone, many academics remain unconvinced. “Just about everybody accepts that Hiss was guilty of espionage, but a dwindling band of radicals still clings to the fantasy of his innocence,” John J. Miller writes in the August 27th issue of National Review. “Earlier this year, Kai Bird and Svetlana Chervonnaya argued at a New York University conference that Hiss was not a spy—they identified another figure, who previously had escaped suspicion, as the real traitors.”

“Their claims, accepted only by die-hard Hiss partisans, also appear in the summer issue of American Scholar.” Unfortunately, it is to such folk that we entrust our history.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.

If you would like to comment on this article, please e-mail mal.kline@academia.org

[3AngelaD]

Kai Bird has made a career out of defending communists, lying about it, denying that that communists were ever at work in America, lying about it, defending illegal immigration, lying about it, and opposing the war, lying about it. He is a former editor of The Nation {surprise!}, so you can just imagine his world-view. I would not believe word this guy says or writes.

[elhombrelibre]

Only the NYT could have a story like this yesterday and not realize the irony.

” This Just In: Pete Seeger Denounced Stalin Over a Decade Ago “

[Lx]

The thing that really must bug these apologists is that Nixon is the one who brought Hiss down.

[ckilmer]

Only the NYT could have a story like this yesterday and not realize the irony.

” This Just In: Pete Seeger Denounced Stalin Over a Decade Ago “
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Actually, this is a change of religious cannon. That is if you accept that certain doctrines of the old left had the weight of religious orthodoxy.

If an old line stalinist denounces stalin then its possible to accept McCarthy as being correct

[VOA]

The liberal cadres that defended him for decades have thinned
since career diplomat Alger Hiss was convicted...

NOT in academia!
If anything, liberals own the academy these days!

[what's up]

Nixon is the one who brought Hiss down.

Yes.

You can't understand Watergate unless you understand what went before...all the way back to Hiss.

[elhombrelibre]

The time to have denounced Stalin was soonafter he came to power. The NYT writer thinks the headline is cute because Pete Seger, a longtime communists, actually denounced him ten years ago, not just the other day as was recently reported. And what makes the NYT so terrible is that their reporter, ”Walter Duranty“, knowingly covered up Stalin's mass murders in Ukraine. Duranty received a Pulitzer prize for his reporting, and the NYT to this day has not given it back. The NYT has a long history of ”Herbert Matthews“ supporting tyranny. See, for example, as well. The list goes on too. Really, someone should write a book on the subject.

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Alger Hiss helped write the charter for the un.