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...least three former Government attorneys-Lee Pressman, Nathan Witt and John Abt-were members of an "underground group." Among other items in Berle's notes was the line: "Plans for two super-battleships secured in 1937-who gave-." Also from Berle's notes: "Donald Hiss [brother of Alger], member of C.P. with Pressman and Witt . . ." and-"Alger Hiss, Ass't. to Sayre-C.P.-1937. Member of Underground Com.-Active...
...their friend Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson and their old mentor Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Both of them, Berle said, gave the Hisses their unequivocal endorsements. Acheson was to testify that his endorsement had only covered Donald Hiss, who was his executive assistant; but he added that Alger Hiss and he were "friends and remain friends...
...Berle turned his notes over to the Department of Justice. FBI agents called on Chambers. A State Department security officer, Ray Murphy, also interviewed him. Chambers told him his story, stating that "much confidential material" had been disclosed by a number of men in Government, among them Alger Hiss...
Persistent Suspicion. Still no action was taken on the charge made by Chambers. By 1946 Alger Hiss had reached a position of some eminence in the Department of State. He had served as executive secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, as a technical adviser at the Yalta Conference and as secretary general of the founding convention of U.N. Suspicion had brushed him, but the only basis for it was the unsubstantiated word of Chambers...
Eventual Objective. In the spring of 1948 Thomas Donegan, a special assistant to the Attorney General, spread before a federal grand jury in New York an FBI report on Alger Hiss...