Peter Jennings reported: "the alleged Communist Spy Alger Hiss died today." Alleged!! Former KGB Officers have said he was a Soviet spy, and had documents to prove it.
Ann Coulter made this same statement during her appearance on Fox News, and with similar confidence. It is utterly false.
"The other curious thing about the Hiss case is the psychology of believing that Hiss was a spy, which requires abandoning much of what we know about rational thought."
--- Molly Ivins
<<< In 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the
possibility that the new, post-Communist Russian regime
might open up some of the Soviet intelligence files, former
President Richard M. Nixon and the director of his
presidential library, John H. Taylor, both wrote to the
Russian historian General Dimitry Antonovich Volkogonov,
who had become President Yeltsin's military advisor and the
overseer of all the Soviet intelligence archives, to request
the release of any Soviet files on the Hiss case. Nixon's
and Taylor's letters to Volkogonov have not been made
available to researchers.
In 1992, Alger Hiss made a similar request to Volkogonov,
and also sent identical letters to several other Russian
officials. In response to Hiss¹s request, Russian archivists
and researchers reviewed their files, and in the fall of 1992
reported back - by letter, fax, or orally - that they had
found no evidence that Alger Hiss had ever been a member
of the Communist Party USA; and, similarly, that they had
found no evidence that he had ever been an agent for the
KGB, for the GRU (Soviet military intelligence), or for any
other intelligence agency of the Soviet Union. >>>
homepages.nyu.edu
This site has a comprehensive review of the facts:
homepages.nyu.edu
Tom |
