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Article: Hiss defenders covering for the `old man'. (the last word).(Alger Hiss)(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- December 17, 2001
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Ever since Whittaker Chambers named Alger Hiss as a key Soviet agent in the State Department, there has been a running battle between the incontrovertible evidence of his guilt and a rolling barrage from people who have come to his defense even as the scope of his activities for the Soviets is increasingly documented.
The standard explanation for this phenomenon has been that defenders of Hiss were tarnished by blind support of the former Soviet Union and fearful of anti-Communists. In addition, it was held, all this was motivated by a belief that the charges against Hiss were a red herring and aimed really at Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrats in general or the ...