Alger Hiss person
also: hiss, Alger Hess, the diplomat
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Claims (17)
Whittaker Chambers exposed
Alger Hiss documented
“anyone named Whitaker Chambers. And he and the rumpled Chambers seemed to come from some different world that wouldn't have made it easy to believe anyway. But it was Chambers whom Nixon found convincing. He simply knew too many details abo…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 32:53
Alger Hiss member_of
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace documented
“Nixon was well aware that Hiss, who accepted Foster Dulles' offer and took over Carnegie Endowment in January of 1947, belonged to the Washington aristocracy that ascended party lines. But accusing Alger Hiss of being a traitor to his count…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 35:18
Alger Hiss member_of
U.S. State Department documented
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 29:57
Alger Hiss member_of
United Nations documented
“After graduating, he was picked to serve as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a living legend. Hiss quickly became one of the rising stars in the Roosevelt administration, capping his Washington career by accompan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 31:56
Alger Hiss worked_for
Oliver Wendell Holmes documented
“After graduating, he was picked to serve as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a living legend. Hiss quickly became one of the rising stars in the Roosevelt administration, capping his Washington career by accompan…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 31:56
Richard Nixon exposed
Alger Hiss documented
“of admiration, envy, and resentment towards Hiss that strongly resonated with Nixon. Nixon quickly emerged as Hiss's most dangerous inquisitor, but Hiss held his ground under the young congressman's relentless questioning, slightly taking a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 33:22
William P. Bundy funded
Alger Hiss documented
“his Alger Hiss. And in fact, one of the main pieces of incriminating evidence he waved against him was that Bundy had contributed $400 to Alger Hiss' defense fund. But the Bundys were solid members of Allen Dulles' inner circle, and Dulles …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 36:16
Whittaker Chambers spied_on
Alger Hiss documented
“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…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 29:27
Alger Hiss headed
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace host_asserted
“and also previously served as the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International War. Let that one hang out there a little bit. That's crazy. What else do we get? When we talked about the Nazi funding by Brown Brothers Harriman, that…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 57:56
Alger Hiss targeted_for_regime_change
Joseph McCarthy host_asserted
“And of course, that's where David worked for Covington and Burling, which is the law firm that employed, oh, I don't know, William Bundy, Victoria Newland, John Bolton, Eric Holder, all war pigs. I don't know about you, but I see a pattern.…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 57:26
Josefa Johnson succeeded
Alger Hiss book_quoted
“uh replaced hiss as the president of the carnegie endowment for international peace and was still in the position in 1961 a professor um that worked at the state department and was director of the international affairs the center for intern…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 13:46
Alger Hiss member_of
CFR book_quoted
“In San Francisco in 1945, when over 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of the U.N., where the U.N. charter was written, they were members of the CFR. Among them, Alger Hiss, Secretary of State Edward Stenonis, L…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner_ The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 1 @ 28:40
Alger Hiss member_of
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace host_asserted
“So he's a director of the Carnegie Endowment until 1952 when he gets picked by Eisenhower to become the Secretary of State. Right before him, or right after that, there was a, not a chairman, but one of the other high-ranking people on the …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 57:15
Whittaker Chambers accused
Alger Hiss host_asserted
“after he got accused of being a Soviet spy by Whitaker Chambers. Imagine that. But if anybody remembers the McCarthy hearings, Alger Hiss was pretty much the poster child for it. Yes. Definitely makes you wonder. So another chairman or pres…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner and War Hamster Brady- Secret Societies meets Operation Gladio 250404 @ 57:49
Alger Hiss spied_on
U.S. State Department book_quoted
“and later Soviet spy, was closely tied with the IPR during his long and influential career in the government. Hiss became a trustee of the IPR after his resignation from the State Department. The secret information which Hiss delivered to a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot Part 2 @ 37:07
Richard Nixon covered_up
Alger Hiss book_quoted
“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 …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 46:11
Verona Project spied_on
Alger Hiss host_asserted
“Meanwhile, Foster quickly moved to distance himself from Hiss, pressuring him from behind the scenes to resign from the Carnegie endowment post, while Allen fed incriminating intelligence to Nixon to bolster the case. Some of the confidenti…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 8 @ 40:58
Mentions (39)
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is that they were able to discover quote-unquote communists. But keep in mind when, and Alger Hiss was one of them, but keep in mind when they label somebody a communist, you don't know whether they're actually a communist or whether they'v…
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And of course, that's where David worked for Covington and Burling, which is the law firm that employed, oh, I don't know, William Bundy, Victoria Newland, John Bolton, Eric Holder, all war pigs. I don't know about you, but I see a pattern.…
▶ 57:56
and also previously served as the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International War. Let that one hang out there a little bit. That's crazy. What else do we get? When we talked about the Nazi funding by Brown Brothers Harriman, that…
▶ 57:15
So he's a director of the Carnegie Endowment until 1952 when he gets picked by Eisenhower to become the Secretary of State. Right before him, or right after that, there was a, not a chairman, but one of the other high-ranking people on the …
▶ 57:49
after he got accused of being a Soviet spy by Whitaker Chambers. Imagine that. But if anybody remembers the McCarthy hearings, Alger Hiss was pretty much the poster child for it. Yes. Definitely makes you wonder. So another chairman or pres…
▶ 11:20
Nixon vowed to make the communist conspiracy the theme of every speech from now until election. McCarthy, in turn, performed loyally for the party, putting his gutter techniques to use at the service of the campaign. Democratic presidential…
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They had a working stiff's bitterness that they clearly enjoyed venting at Harvard types like Alger Hiss as much as they did at hardcore communists. McCarthy went as far as challenging the nomination of Harvard University James Conant as hi…
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his Alger Hiss. And in fact, one of the main pieces of incriminating evidence he waved against him was that Bundy had contributed $400 to Alger Hiss' defense fund. But the Bundys were solid members of Allen Dulles' inner circle, and Dulles …
▶ 29:00
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…
▶ 29:57
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 …
▶ 31:27
memoir, Six Crises, was one of the defining moments of his career. Nixon was often wracked by self-doubt, and this was one of those contests that brought his deepest anxieties out. Nixon's antagonist boasted all of the credentials that had …
▶ 31:56
After graduating, he was picked to serve as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a living legend. Hiss quickly became one of the rising stars in the Roosevelt administration, capping his Washington career by accompan…
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A striking impression, thin, handsome, smartly dressed, and self-assured. Even Nixon had to admit that his performance was a striking contrast to his accuser's lackluster appearance before the committee. Chambers was short and pudgy. His cl…
▶ 32:53
anyone named Whitaker Chambers. And he and the rumpled Chambers seemed to come from some different world that wouldn't have made it easy to believe anyway. But it was Chambers whom Nixon found convincing. He simply knew too many details abo…
▶ 33:22
of admiration, envy, and resentment towards Hiss that strongly resonated with Nixon. Nixon quickly emerged as Hiss's most dangerous inquisitor, but Hiss held his ground under the young congressman's relentless questioning, slightly taking a…
▶ 33:50
Nixon, a gaze, and continued, and I believe yours was wittier. It was an expertly aimed harpoon, certain to deeply wound the man who was so obviously afflicted with this class envy. It absolutely ripped Nixon apart, recalled Robert Striplin…
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Nixon knew that he was facing a formidable foe. Hiss clearly had the Washington press on his side, as well as the White House. While the committee was interrogating him, President Truman told a press conference that the committee spy scare …
▶ 34:48
He was on a familiar basis, and they weren't all Democrats. The biggest name he dropped was John Foster Dulles. It produced a mighty echo in the caucus room. His reminded the committee that it was the Republicans' wise man who had offered h…
▶ 35:18
Nixon was well aware that Hiss, who accepted Foster Dulles' offer and took over Carnegie Endowment in January of 1947, belonged to the Washington aristocracy that ascended party lines. But accusing Alger Hiss of being a traitor to his count…
▶ 35:48
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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The Wall Street attorney appreciated the delicacy of the situation. As Dewey's top foreign advisor, Foster was poised to become the next Secretary of State. The last thing he needed was a Washington tempest that tied him to a Soviet spy. Fo…
▶ 39:06
Committee would have to close its noisy show and his political career would be wrecked. John Foster felt that Nixon approached the group with a proper sense of humility and no doubt intrepidation. It was clear he did not want to proceed unt…
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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…
▶ 40:37
convenient arrangements with a dullest circle. It was another significant step for Nixon through the portals of power. With the Republican brain trust full support, Nixon would continue his aggressive pursuit of his while keeping the spotli…
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Meanwhile, Foster quickly moved to distance himself from Hiss, pressuring him from behind the scenes to resign from the Carnegie endowment post, while Allen fed incriminating intelligence to Nixon to bolster the case. Some of the confidenti…
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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…
▶ 41:54
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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and sympathizers as traders, but to brand the entire New Deal legacy as un-American. Even former high-ranking New Dealers with impeccable credentials like Alger Hiss would be fair game. The age of paranoia brought out Nixon's brilliance as …
▶ 42:53
came to believe that there was no genuine ideological passion in Nixon's pursuit of the traitor, Hiss, just the same cold-blooded calculation he had brought to his campaign with Jerry Boris. He was no more concerned about whether Hiss was a…
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When his Marshall Plan tour took him to Greece, Nixon was horrified to meet a young woman whose left breast had been hacked off by the quote-unquote communist guerrillas, which we now know was Operation Gladio in Greece. He returned from th…
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Nixon never proved that Hiss was a card-carrying communist or Soviet agent, but with typical hyperbole, he treated him like he was a mortal threat to the American way of life. The highlight of Nixon's obsession was the pursuit of Hiss came …
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State Department documents, four pages of copied government documents in Hiss's handwriting, and five rolls of classified film, all of which Chambers claimed had been slipped to him by Hiss in 1938. Nixon staged a dramatic return to Washing…
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Professor Doty of Harvard Chemistry Department. Professor Lloyd Reynolds of Yale University and an economist. Professor Louis Sohn of Harvard Law School. Dr. Joseph Johnson, old school and former associate of Alger Hiss at the State Departm…
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In San Francisco in 1945, when over 40 members of the U.S. delegation to the organizational meeting of the U.N., where the U.N. charter was written, they were members of the CFR. Among them, Alger Hiss, Secretary of State Edward Stenonis, L…
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So he goes on. There were indications of the influence. And of course, algebra should be a dead giveaway. There were indications of the influence of CFR members that can be found in the boast of their friends. Consider the remarkable case o…
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The consequences were made by IPR officials who were traitors that owed their allegiance to Moscow. Owen Lattimore, the guiding light of the IPR during its most important years, a member of the CFR, was considered an instrument of the Sovie…
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and later Soviet spy, was closely tied with the IPR during his long and influential career in the government. Hiss became a trustee of the IPR after his resignation from the State Department. The secret information which Hiss delivered to a…
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Benjamin Buttenweiser, a member of Kuhn, Loeb & Company in New York, a member of the Executive Committee of the Foreign Policy Association and CFR member. Joseph Johnson, an old friend of Alger Hiss, who succeeded Hiss as president of the C…