The question was carefully phrased. Had Alger Hiss or his wife ever turned over any Government documents to Whittaker Chambers? In a hushed room in New York’s federal courthouse, Alger Hiss ...

Alger Hiss' most personal comments appear in four short paragraphs at the end of his book. Summing up, Hiss writes: The ordeal of fighting false charges has disrupted my life and has brought pain ...

For the first 13 days of its second run in Manhattan’s federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as ...