Alger Hiss
Subtitle: why he chose treason
By: Christina Shelton
Edition: 1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781451655421; 9781451655438; 9781451655452
Subjects: United States; Communism; Biography; Officials and employees; Soviet Espionage; History; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; United States. Dept. of State; Trials, litigation; Spies
Description: 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 analytic failures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years.; title: Growing up in Baltimore; title: Hopkins and Harvard Law; title: Priscilla Hiss; title: Supreme Court clerk and attorney-at-law; title: A committed communist.; title: The new dealer; title: The Ware Group; title: Whittaker Chambers; title: The State Department bureaucrat; title: Yalta; title: Fascism and communism; title: Accused and convicted.; title: The case; title: Lewisburg Prison; title: Attempt at vindication 1954-1996; title: The evidence.; title: Testimonies; title: Venona program; title: Archival material:; title: A. hungarian archives; title: B. KGB archives.