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19 août 1998 · “I welcome Alger Hiss’s daring suit,” Chambers said. “I do not minimize the ferocity or the ingenuity of the forces that are working through him.” As Hiss’s suit prepared to go to trial, the case took a new, even more serious turn. It changed the main issue from whether Alger Hiss was a Communist to whether he was a spy.
13 nov. 2009 · In the conclusion to one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury.He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards ...
Alger Hiss was born on November 11, 1904 in Baltimore, Maryland, the fourth of five children. In 1907, his father, an executive with a dry goods firm, experienced severe financial difficulties and committed suicide, leaving the children to be raised by their mother and aunt. Hiss attended Johns Hopkins University and then Harvard Law School ...
16 nov. 1996 · Alger Hiss dies at age of 92; diplomat and Harvard-trained government lawyer was convicted of perjury in espionage case that became one of great riddles of Cold War; case catapulted Richard M ...
L’affaire est complexe. Alger Hiss, patricien qui a tout pour réussir une brillante carrière, est accusé par Whittaker Chambers, un de ces délateurs quasi-professionnels, ex-communistes repentis, qu’utilise le gouvernement américain lors de la chasse aux sorcières, d’avoir trahi son pays.
Though Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department official, was accused of spying for the Soviet Union and imprisoned, he was never convicted of espionage per se. Throughout his life, Hiss denied any ...
A s Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package ...
