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#ALGER HISS DEFINITION TRIAL#
Hiss maintained his innocence to his death Soviet files made public in 1995 convinced most observers that he had been guilty, but controversy lingers. Alger Hiss, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, was put on trial by the HUAC because he was accused of being a spy. In 1957 he wrote In the Court of Public Opinion, in which he denied all charges against him.
Hiss was released from prison in Nov., 1954, his term shortened for good conduct. His trial created great controversy many believed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had tampered with evidence in order to secure a conviction. At a second trial Hiss was found guilty (Jan., 1950) and sentenced to a five-year prison term. State Department official, Alger Hiss (1904-1996) was indicted in 1948 and convicted in 1950 of having provided classified documents to an. When he was first brought to trial in 1949, the jury was unable to reach a decision. The following year, Whittaker Chambers espionage allegations against former State Department foreign policy advisor Alger Hiss made headlines and the HUAC. Hiss denied these charges since, under the statute of limitations, he could not be tried for espionage, he was indicted (Dec., 1948) on two counts of perjury. In Aug., 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a magazine editor and former Communist party courier, accused Hiss of having helped transmit confidential government documents to the Russians. With Alger Hisss perjury conviction and the confession of Klaus Fuchs, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, to having delivered atomic secrets to the Soviet. In 1947, he resigned his government post to become president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
of State in 1936 and rose rapidly to become an adviser at various international conferences and a coordinator of American foreign policy. Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. I mean that amoral behavior is bahavior that does not take account the ordinary accepted. He then was attached to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933–35) and to the Dept. Schweikart: Alger Hiss was a Soviet agent who luckily escaped incarceration for treason and espionage and was stupid enough to bring a defamation lawsuit against former accomplice Whittaker. Will you define for us, Doctor, what you mean by amoral and asocial A. After serving (1929–30) as secretary to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Hiss practiced law in Boston and New York City. Hiss, Alger (ălˈjər), 1904–96, American public official, b.