The story of Alger Hiss’ treason is well documented by numerous sources. What could, to a less-informed reader, be an unpleasant surprise are the numerous attempts at covering up the facts of that story. How long is the communistic lying to be tolerated ?From “Molotov Remembers”The freedom of speech has often been an issue evoked when creating smoke-screens. In the US, one can publish practically anything. So, for every one largely true text about the events 1940-50 there can be found at least one untrue text on self-same subject.
The case of Alger Hiss has been apparently used for a sort of lightning-rod – so that the scope of the Soviet apparatus in the US would be obscured by way of everybody's arguing, whas this man really guilty ? or was he not. On the Alleged ‘Witch-Hunts’, the U.S. 1940-50’s.
Seeing no need to recount the story here, I am only posting some data related to the overall issue of the Red infiltration in the US.
The oft-criticised Dies Committees, the Un-American Activities Committees, etc., were certainly not infallible. Any and every mistake made during those years of the Red scare would be pointed out, and amplified, by the agents of the Kremlin, in the US and world-wide. There may have been a large number of people too, who genuinely believed in one side of the issues by way of having been "taken in" by the Bolshevik propaganda.
One notes that the anti-communist investigations had been dealing with enemies who specialized in making other people fail.
Yet, I have seen just too many assertions that all that had never existed and that the investigations were sorts of ‘with-hunts’, etc. Follow some statements by a man who certainly was in a position to know.
”. . . We had been doing research in that area since 1943. I was in charge of it. I had to find a scientist who would be able to create an A-bomb. . . . Our intelligence agents had done very important work. . . . I myself understood none of it, but I knew the materials had come from good, reliable sources. . . .It was a very good intelligence operation by our Chekists. They neatly stole just what we needed. And just at the right moment, when we were beginning this work.
The Rosenberg couple . . . I refrained from asking about that, but I think they were connected with our intelligence effort. . . . Someone helped us mightily with the A-bomb. Intelligence played a great role. In America the Rosenbergs were punished. There is a chance they were helping us. But we shouldn’t talk about that. We may have use for it in the future. [?]
These materials were American, not German?
Oh yes, for the most part. Before and during the war our intelligence worked quite well. We had a fine group in America. Even old “moles.” Beria also kept it up after the war.
Note : "Before and during the war our intelligence worked quite well. We had a fine group in America. Even old “moles.” Beria also kept it up after the war." [source as below, page 56]
Chuev, Feliks Ivanovich, 1941- Title(s) Sto sorok besed s Molotovym. English Molotov remembers : inside Kremlin politics : conversations with Felix Chuev / edited with an introduction and notes by Albert Resis. Publisher Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1993. Paging xxiii, 438 p. ; 24 cm. Notes Includes index.