Alger_Hiss_Case

Alger Hiss Case In August 1948, Whittaker Chambers, charged that Alger Hiss, was a Communist spy. Chambers claimed that he and Hiss had belonged to the same spy group and that Hiss had given him secret State Department documents. This group was a network of American spies recruited by the Soviet Union to collect useful information for Moscow. Alger Hiss was a Harvard-educated lawyer. He had played a high role in the planning and the development of the United Nations. Whittaker Chambers, a senior editor of Time magazine and an ex-Communist, appeared as a witness before HUAC. (1)“Chambers testified that in the 1930's he had been attached as a messenger to a Communist organization formed in Washington, D.C. The group had been organized by Harold Ware, a well-known Communist, and its members included eight government officials.” Chambers confessed that spying had been one of the Ware Group's "eventual objectives" and identified its members. One of them was Alger Hiss, a former Assistant Secretary of State. He also had control over the founding conference of the United Nations in 1945. Alger Hiss constantly denied the allegations of Chambers's. Hiss also referred to Chambers as a "psychopathic liar." Hiss sued hiss, field, chambers, alger, state, soviet, department, spy, documents, one, moscow, group, been, ales, yalta, united, trial, over, members, massing, information, government, communist, worked, wife, ware, war, two, told, time, secret, said, organization, noel, nkvd, nations, lawyer, intelligence, having, denied, bullitt, another, agent, after, working, woodstock, witness, whittaker, washington, typed