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Your search for: hiss AND chambers AND case


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Books on: hiss chambers case

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Journal Articles on: hiss chambers case

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Magazine Articles on: hiss chambers case

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Newspaper Articles on: hiss chambers case

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    Examining the Inner World of Improbable Spy, Alger Hiss
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 27, 2004
    Subjects: 
    Hiss, Alger, White, G. Edward
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...examined. However, a major anti-Hiss development had come in 1978 with...Allen Weinstein book "Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case," in which the author reversed his original belief in Hiss innocence; further investigation...
     
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    Alger Hiss, Communist Spy
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 19, 1996
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Historian Allen Weinstein, who was sympathetic to Hiss initially, wound up concluding in his book, "Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case," that Hiss had indeed lied. A federal district judge turned...
     
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    Equally Erring about Hiss
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 22, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Most important, she sets off altogether on the wrong foot, seeking to explain the Hiss case only with an eye for Alger Hiss, not Mr. Hiss and Mr. Chambers, the two people at the center of the case. The left hand knoweth better than the right...
     
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    Spy Figure Alger Hiss Dies at 92: Pursuit Brought Fame to Nixon
    Newspaper article by Carleton R. Bryant; The Washington Times, November 16, 1996
    Subjects: 
    Nixon, Richard M.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...when he denied giving Chambers the documents and said he had not seen Chambers after early in 1937. On March 22, 1951, Hiss was shackled to a mail...dry recitation of the case for his innocence. His...fell apart, and the Hisses separated but never divorced...wife Priscillas death, Hiss married his companion...
     
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    Nixon's Testimony Was Key to Hiss Case: 'Clever' Speech Steered Spy Indictment
    Newspaper article by Erica Tuttle; The Washington Times, October 13, 1999
    Subjects: 
    Nixon, Richard M.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...testimony was key to Hiss case: Clever speech steered...Alger Hiss espionage case, as grand jury testimony...Soviet agent Whittaker Chambers, and the defendant...at a moment when the case could have gone either...the most sensational cases of the Cold War, testifying...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: hiss chambers case

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    Hiss, Alger
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Aug., 1948, Whittaker Chambers , a magazine editor and...party courier, accused Hiss of having helped transmit...documents to the Russians. Hiss denied these charges...decision. At a second trial Hiss was found guilty (Jan...The Hiss-Chambers Case (1978...
     
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    Chambers, Whittaker
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    CHAMBERS, WHITTAKER 1901 61...Activities, accusing Alger Hiss , president of the Carnegie...Communist party member. Hiss sued for libel, and...documents he alleged Hiss had given him. Hiss...and imprisoned. The case was extremely controversial...
     
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    Espionage
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...activities and budgets of the U.S. intelligence agencies. Famous cold war espionage cases include Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers and the Rosenberg Case . In 1952 the Communist Chinese captured two CIA agents, and in 1960 Francis Gary Powers...
     
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    Nixon, Richard Milhous
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Activities, where he was credited with forcing the famous confrontation between Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers , thus precipitating the perjury case against Hiss. In 1950 he was elected to the U.S. Senate after a particularly bitter electoral...
     

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