Alger Hiss : why he chose treason / Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes.

Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence...

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Main Author: Shelton, Christina
Other Authors: Pipes, Richard
Language:English
Published: New York : Threshold Editions, 2012.
Edition:First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
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Physical Description:xvii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a The early years. -- Growing up in Baltimore -- Hopkins and Harvard Law -- Priscilla Hiss -- Supreme Court clerk and attorney-at-law -- A committed communist. -- The new dealer -- The Ware Group -- Whittaker Chambers -- The State Department bureaucrat -- Yalta -- Fascism and communism -- Accused and convicted. -- The case -- Lewisburg Prison -- Attempt at vindication 1954-1996 -- The evidence. -- Testimonies -- Venona program -- Archival material: -- A. hungarian archives -- B. KGB archives. 
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