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Article: Hiss Case
Dictionary of American History;      700+ words ... ... principals included Alger Hiss, a former State Department official; Whittaker ... his charge, accusing Hiss of passing State Department documents for transmittal ... also infiltrated the State Department. Hiss served nearly four years ...

Article: Alger Hiss, Convicted in Celebrated Spy Case, Dies at 92
The Washington Post;  November 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Alger Hiss, 92, the former State Department official whose ... magazine, that Hiss had passed copies of stolen State Department documents to ... Alger Hiss. Hiss was first named ... had left the State Department and recently ...

Article: Alger Hiss
Encyclopedia of World Biography;      700+ words ... ... A former U.S. State Department official, Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was ... Career Cut Short As a State Department employee, Hiss's career fortunes ... drafted and approved. Hiss remained in the State Department until February 1947 ...

Article: Obituary: Alger Hiss
The Independent - London;  November 18, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... included a State Department official named Alger Hiss, and though ... produce copies of State Department documents and ... undoing of Alger Hiss. Some were ... working in the State Department. McCarthyism ... born and the Hiss case had acted ...

Article: Hiss defenders covering for the `old man'. (the last ...
Insight on the News;  December 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... named Alger Hiss as a key Soviet agent in the State Department, there has ... conviction of Alger Hiss, that he had ... information on to the State Department at its highest ... their posts -- Hiss rising in the State Department to the critical ...

Article: Alger Hiss, key figure in Cold War spy case
Chicago Sun-Times;  November 16, 1996 ;     688 words ...Alger Hiss, 92, the former State Department official whose ... magazine, that Mr. Hiss had passed copies of stolen State Department documents to ... declaring that the State Department had become ... supported Mr. Hiss and had said ...

Article: Spy figure Alger Hiss dies at 92: Pursuit brought fame to ...
The Washington Times;  November 16, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... real nature of Alger Hiss, they would boil him ... Mr. Nixon once said. Hiss denied it all. But Chambers ... they found microfilmed State Department documents - the ones ... said he received from Hiss. The documents forever ... fell apart, and the Hisses separated but never divorced ...