"In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor and a self-confessed former Soviet agent, told a grand jury that Alger Hiss, a former U.S. State Department official, had passed him classified documents. Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950 for denying those charges under oath and spent forty-four months in prison. Chambers first testified publicly against Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee in August 1948."
"'In 1976, I went to work for Alger Hiss, believing I could solve one of the most baffling political mysteries in American history,' writes Kisseloff. 'It took me fifty years, but I can say now with certainty that Whittaker Chambers lied when he claimed that Hiss was a spy.' Since the book's publication, the Washington Examiner has published two articles, from different writers, criticizing Rewriting Hisstory."
"When the Washington Examiner published a " review" of my book Rewriting Hisstory: A Fifty-Year Journey to Uncover the Truth About Alger Hiss by the noted Hiss case scholar David Chambers, I was not offered the opportunity to respond to his charge that my argument for Hiss's innocence was the result of my dishonesty. That's a serious charge, and the second time it has been leveled since the book was published."
In 1948 Whittaker Chambers, a Time magazine editor and former Soviet agent, told a grand jury that Alger Hiss passed him classified documents. Hiss was convicted of perjury in 1950 for denying those charges and served forty-four months in prison. Chambers first testified against Hiss before the House Un-American Activities Committee in August 1948. A researcher began working for Hiss in 1976 and concluded after fifty years that Chambers lied in claiming Hiss was a spy. Subsequent media critiques accused defenders of dishonesty, and a letter defending the conclusion went unacknowledged by the Washington Examiner, whose Letters section has been inactive since December 2023.
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