The political backdrop to John Nash's paranoid and geopolitical hauntings included the Cold War, fought not only ... Department foreign policy advisor Alger Hiss made headlines and the HUAC ...

Said the lean man: “Yes, sir.” A deputy marshal led Alger Hiss away to a detention cell. Behind him was a bright, strange and blasted career, begun with great promise: he had been law clerk to ...

The suit that began it all—the $75,000 libel and slander suit filed against Whittaker Chambers in 1948 by Alger Hiss—was quietly dropped in Baltimore’s federal district court. To answer the ...

Docter Alexander 11 Murry '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, will testify as a defense witness in the perjury trial of Alger ... War Robert P. Patterson LL.B. '15 had told him in 1947 that Hiss ...

Alger Hiss, a former US State Department official, was exposed as a Soviet spy by Whittaker Chambers, a self-confessed former communist. Hiss was convicted and imprisoned in 1950. Ethel and Julius ...