Alger Hiss Trial event
also: Hiss's second trial, the Hiss case
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Allen Dullesperson · 4Whittaker Chambersperson · 4Alger Hissperson · 4Thomas Deweyperson · 2Carnegie Endowment for International Peaceorganization · 2Blind Ambitionbook · 1Watergate scandalevent · 1Christian Herterperson · 1U.S. State Departmentorganization · 1FBIintelligence service · 1Charles P. Corsonperson · 1John Deanperson · 1Harry S. Trumanperson · 1House Un-American Activities Committeeorganization · 1Roosevelt Hotelplace · 1Priscilla Hissperson · 1Soviet Unioncountry · 1
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patrons, powerful men like the Dulles brothers, whom Nixon was counting on to advance his own career. When he phoned Foster Dulles at his Wall Street office on the morning of August 11th, the same office where he had been snubbed as a law s…
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Harder had checked with his friends at the State Department who assured him Hiss was not a communist. But Nixon was also aware that he came into the room with his own unique leverage. As the leading inquisitor of the Hiss case, an affair wh…
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The Verona project was so top secret that it was kept hidden from President Truman, but the deeply wired Dulles might have enjoyed access to it. Nixon was impressed by the Dulles brothers' bold decision to politically exploit the Hiss affai…
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could have suggested that I delay the proceedings until after the election. But instead, with Nixon's help, they turned the Hiss case to their advantage, with Dewey being against the Roosevelt and Truman administration that had allowed comm…
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Neither he nor his wife, Priscilla, could have retyped the State Department documents, said Hiss, because they had given away the Woodstock model typewriter that they allegedly used to copy the classified memos before 1938. Four jury member…
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That he was framed was given further credence years later by John Dean, the former White House attorney who became a key witness in the Watergate scandal that ended the Nixon presidency. Writing in his memoirs, Blind Ambition, Dean alleged …
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With the help of FBI technicians, Nixon had used a replica of the Woodstock machine to trap his prey. Hiss's second trial did not go in his favor. Among the witnesses who testified against him was none other than John Foster Dulles, who dis…
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of Hiss's testimony was his insistence that he had never known an individual by the name of Whitaker Chambers. When Nixon later staged a face-to-face meeting between the two, Hiss finally acknowledged that he had known Chambers under a diff…
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and that a homosexual drama laid at the heart of it. The true story of the Hiss case Nixon revealed to a congressional confidant on board of his presidential yacht a quarter of essentially later is that Hiss and Chambers were both queers. T…