Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.

Alger Hiss (pictured), a well-educated and well-connected former government lawyer and State Department official who helped create the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II, was...

2024年12月30日 · Alger Hiss was a former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring.

2013年1月25日 · Alger Hiss, a well-educated and well-connected former government lawyer and State Department official who helped create the United Nations in the aftermath of World War II, was headed to prison in...

2009年11月13日 · 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...

2018年7月26日 · In September 1939, Whittaker Chambers, a defected communist spy, met with Adolf A. Berle, Assistant Secretary of State and disclosed a list of 18 government o icials who were involved in the communist underground. One of the people listed was Alger Hiss, a State Department employee.

1996年11月15日 · Alger Hiss, according to Chambers and others, becomes a member of Ware's underground cell, a sort of Marxist study group. In August or September, Hiss meets Chambers (then using the name "Carl") and begins paying Communist Party dues.

Forty-four-year-old Alger Hiss, wearing a gray herringbone suit, blue tie, and a brimmed brown hat, entered the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan on May 31, 1949 for the first day of his trial for perjury.

In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a self-confessed former communist and Soviet spy, alleged that Alger Hiss, who had been a high-level official in the State Department during the 1930s and 1940s and who had worked closely with Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, had also been a communist and a spy.

Trial excerpts. original essays, images, video clips, letters, appellate decisions, and other materials relating to the Alger Hiss perjury trials.