TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shelton,Christina
TI  - Alger Hiss: why he chose treason 
SN  - 9781451655421
AV  - E743.5.H55 S54 2012
U1  - 327.12092B 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Threshold Editions
KW  - Hiss, Alger.
KW  - Hiss, Alger
KW  - United States
KW  - Department of State
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Biography
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Committee on Un-American Activities
KW  - fast
KW  - Spies
KW  - Communism
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Espionage, Soviet
KW  - Employees
KW  - Trials
KW  - Trial and arbitral proceedings
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The early years -- Growing up in Baltimore -- Hopkins and Harvard Law -- Priscilla Hiss -- Supreme Court clerk and attorney-at-law -- A committed communist. -- The new dealer -- The Ware Group -- Whittaker Chambers -- The State Department bureaucrat -- Yalta -- Fascism and communism -- Accused and convicted. -- The case -- Lewisburg Prison -- Attempt at vindication 1954-1996 -- The evidence. -- Testimonies -- Venona program -- Archival material: -- A. Hungarian archives -- B. KGB archives
N2  - Documents the lesser-known story of a high-level State Department official who in the late 1940s was charged with spying for the Soviet Union, arguing that the case was shaped by missed opportunities and poor judgments that also reflected period Soviet infiltration and American counter-intelligence analytic failures
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011038985-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1210/2011038985-d.html
ER  -