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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9422)	3/2/1998 5:46:00 PM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

And evidently he wasn't even attracted enough to Chambers to save him. But wasn't J. Edgar already in a committed relationship with his second in command? He was after all a family values man.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (9422)	3/3/1998 6:30:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

>>Chambers didn't "put himself in jeopardy": he was caught in a trap and sang like a canary. In these circumstances who can ever really know the truth? Rather like dunking witches: if they survived they were demonically possessed, if they drowned, well, sorry, our mistake. You are absolutely wrong and anyone out there can check the historical facts if they wish. Chambers nailed Hiss because he could no longer accept standing by and not doing something to redeem himself for his own role as a spy for the most murderous regime in the history of the world - something that didn't bother fellow spy Hiss at all. Once exposed Hiss had no reason to tell the truth, his career as a diplomat and his usefulness as a Soviet spy were over and if he "went over" his "liberal" friends would abandon him as they did so many others. He was going to prison anyway, so why not pose as a martyr? There are probably a few Stalinists out there who still believe in the "innocence" of convicted perjurer Alger Hiss. They care little for the truth or for the 80-120 million people who died to further the ends of the Soviet system.