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Article: Why does BBC News exonerate a traitor? Geoffrey Wheatcroft says that only the liberal Left can still believe that Alger Hiss, who died last week, was not a spy for the Soviet Union
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 17, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Sunday Telegraph London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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EVEN by the BBC's standards, the radio news yesterday morning
was unusual for ignorant tendentiousness. Alger Hiss, who died on
Friday at the age of 92, was an American lawyer who had been
imprisoned after accusations that he had been a Soviet agent. "His
trial heralded the communist witch-hunts of the 1950s led by the
infamous Senator McCarthy," said Radio 4's news bulletin, which
went on to suggest that Hiss had been innocent. It was a fine
example of the BBC's sheer bias. And it was a fine display of how
Left-wing illusions never die.
What even the BBC could not distort is as follows. Alger Hiss was
born in 1904 and educated at two Ivy League colleges. He worked for
the revered Justice ...
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