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Article: Hisstoriography. (reason to doubt Russian effort to 'exonerate' American spy Alger Hiss) (Editorial)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 30, 1992
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HISS'S wartime controller was the leading NKVD illegal in the United States, Iskhak Abdulovich Akhmerov . . ." So records Oleg Gordievsky, one of the most important KGB officers ever to defect to the West, in his 1990 memoir. Gordievsky's detailed inside account only added to the avalanche of evidence already corroborating Whittaker Chambers's charges that Alger Hiss, key State Department aide under FDR, spied for the Soviet Union. The most authoritative analysis was (and remains) Perjury, by historian Allen Weinstein, who began his enquiry believing in Hiss's innocence but, by the time his exhaustive research was completed, had become convinced that Hiss was a ...