Volume 23, Number 5 · April 1, 1976
Was Alger Hiss Framed?
By Allen Weinstein
Alger Hiss: The True Story
by John Chabot Smith
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 485 pp., $15.00
Since Alger Hiss was convicted at his second trial for perjury in 1950, most of the books on the Hiss-Chambers case have been written by partisans of Hiss who believe he was framed; and most have largely rehashed the very evidence available at the trials, using it to attack Chambers's defense of himself in his book Witness. Important new evidence on the case has now become available—not only from FBI and other government files that were previously classified but from the defense records that Hiss himself has opened to me and to other researchers, including John Chabot Smith, the author of Alger Hiss: The True Story.
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