We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method. Pay using card ending in. Taxes where applicable. Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews. Amazon Reviews. Sort by:. Most Helpful Most Recent. Filter by:. Hiss, who had been encouraged to leave the State Department after serving as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs and helping organize the first United Nations conference, appeared and firmly denied knowing Chambers or being a Communist.
Subsequent hearings demonstrated that Chambers knew a great deal about Hiss, his family, and his personal life, and Hiss eventually recollected knowing Chambers under a different name during the s.
Hiss dared Chambers to repeat his remarks outside a congressional hearing. When Chambers did so, Hiss filed a lawsuit for slander. During the discovery process of the trial, Chambers retrieved documents he had hidden with a relative when he broke with the Communist movement in They included reports on State Department activities and other evidence of espionage. Chambers now admitted that Hiss had been engaged in espionage and that he had lied to HUAC to protect him.
Chambers temporarily hid some of the material he had secreted away in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm before turning it over to HUAC. Hiss was indicted for perjury — lying to a grand jury about giving State Department documents to Chambers and denying he had met Chambers in — because the statute of limitations on espionage had expired.
Chambers and his wife testified to the close relationship they had with the Hiss family. FBI technical staff affirmed the documents had been typed on a Hiss family typewriter and that handwritten material was from Hiss. Another Soviet defector testified that she knew Hiss to be a Soviet spy. The Hiss defense tried to paint Chambers as mentally ill and a serial perjurer. A string of distinguished Americans, including two Supreme Court justices, served as character witnesses for Hiss during the first trial, which ended in a hung jury.
Hiss was convicted of perjury in a second trial in January and sentenced to five years in prison. For conservatives, the case demonstrated the blind eye the New Deal had for Soviet subversion. After unsuccessful appeals, Hiss went to prison. To the end of his life he maintained his innocence, insisting the FBI had built a typewriter to frame him and planted it as evidence.
The second major Cold War trial, that of the Rosenbergs, began with the successful decoding of a Venona cable informing the Soviets about gaseous diffusion, a process used in making the atomic bomb. Its author was Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist working as part of the British team at Los Alamos; he fit the profile of Rest, a code name in the Venona decryptions. Once arrested, Gold also confessed and implicated a soldier and his wife from whom he had picked up a report on the bomb in New Mexico in — David and Ruth Greenglass, whose code names were Caliber and Wasp, respectively.
Rosenberg had been directing an extensive espionage network. Although the evidence against Ethel was thin, it supported a charge of conspiracy. The Venona decryptions could not be used in court because there was some question of whether they were legally admissible and, in any case, American intelligence officials did not want to alert the U.
So the only way to expose and prosecute the other members of his espionage ring was for Rosenberg to cooperate, but he did not. Though many believed that Hiss was a much-maligned official who became a victim of the anticommunist hysteria of the lates, others felt strongly that he was a lying communist agent. Until his death at the age of 92 on November 15, , Hiss never deviated from his claim of innocence. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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