[Hiss, Alger]:

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IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, APPELLEE, AGAINST ALGER HISS, APPELLANT. TRANSCRIPT OF RECORD ON APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COUIRT OF THE UNITED ... "The conviction on perjury charges in 1950 of Alger Hiss, a high-ranking State Department official during the New Deal, is pivotal to any understanding of Cold War America....[Hiss'] second trial lasted twice as long as the first, produced a several-million-word record and several thousand pages of exhibits, featured more than a hundred witnesses, and resulted in wholly irreconcilable testimony about the events in question" - ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE AMERICAN LEFT.This is the complete record of Hiss's second trial on charges that he perjured himself in denying that as a State Department official in the 1930s he passed documents to Whittaker Chambers for transfer to the Soviet Union, and that he lied about his relationship with Chambers. Hiss' first trial, in 1949, resulted in a hung jury, and in the intervening months before the second trial the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, and the Chinese Communists took control of mainland China. Alger Hiss was a former law clerk to Oliver Wendell Holmes and a trusted confidante to then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson. He and other presumed spies were seen as contributing to these setbacks against American interests. In this second trial Hiss was found guilty of perjury, and sentenced to five years in prison. The question of Alger

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