Alger Hiss : why he chose treason / Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Threshold Editions, 2012.Edition: 1st Threshold editions hardcover edDescription: xvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781451655421
  • 1451655428
  • 9781451655438
  • 1451655436
  • 9781451655452
  • 1451655452
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 327.12092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • E743.5.H55 S54 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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