Three years in jail, my father would say in his later years, is a good corrective to three years at Harvard. March 22, 1951, to Nov. 27, 1954--almost all of that time served in a medium-security ...

As the congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone’s mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger ...

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To the editor: Stanford historian Sam Wineburg is concerned about his students’ lack of knowledge of Soviet spying in the United States. The year is 2019, not 1959. Do most students know who Alger ...

Fifty-eight years ago Sunday, Alger Hiss -- the defendant in an emblematic Cold War prosecution once called "the trial of the century" -- began serving a federal prison sentence for perjury. Until his ...

White (Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sage of the Supreme Court) is the son-in-law of John F. Davis, who served as Alger Hiss's counsel during a 1948 appearance before the House Committee on Un-American ...

As big, brown-mustached U.S. prosecutor Tom Murphy made his second bid to send Alger Hiss off to prison for perjury, spectators had covertly begun eying the gaunt, calm defendant for signs of reaction ...

THE RECENT DRAMA surrounding FBI agent Robert Hanssen comes at a time when we are reminded of another famous American spy case. April 1 marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Whittaker ...

Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin's assurances that he would be a ...

Well, I guess I have been right all along. Others have been saying that special counsel Robert Mueller was going to be swept up by the Kultursmog and become a tool of Hillary’s conspiracy. She said ...

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Hillary's explanation for her defeat has been that the Russians colluded with the Trump team to fashion her defeat. After all, she has been a lifelong enemy of Moscow, almost a member of The John ...