Alger Hiss case event
also: Alger Hess and Whitaker Chambers, the epic duel, the probe of alleged communists
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Whittaker Chambersperson · 4Alger Hissperson · 3House Un-American Activities Committeeorganization · 3Soviet Unioncountry · 1United Statescountry · 1Allen Dullesperson · 1Time-Lifeorganization · 1Henry Luceperson · 1Richard Nixonperson · 1CIAintelligence service · 1
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First is the extent to which the campaign contributions from abroad, including Asia, affected Nixon's policy and career. The second is whether, as recently charged, Nixon's early career, leading up to his use of inside knowledge in the Hiss…
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not FDR, and took the elevator up to the 15th floor where Governor Tom Dewey, the Republican candidate for president, kept a sweep. The freshman congressman was once again about to demonstrate his value to the Dulles brothers. Nixon carried…
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whose epic duel would become one of the defining public spectacles of the Cold War. Chambers, a senior writer and editor at Time magazine owned by Henry Luce, Mr. CIA adjacent, right-leaning publishing empire had ignited a firestorm by alle…
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during the 1930s, a ring that included Alger Hiss. The resounding denial by Hiss, a former senior ranking Roosevelt State Department official, was so persuasively delivered that the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee on which …
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Nixon recalled his fellow congressmen were in a virtual state of shock. Furious committee members turned on the staff, berating them for not thoroughly bedding chambers before putting them on the stand. We've been had, we're ruined, moaned …
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reputation, it would probably destroy it for good. It would be a public confession that we were incompetent and reckless. His impassioned plea succeeded in steadying the committee's nerves and they agreed to carry on. But Nixon knew that be…