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...given Berle. He said that espionage was not the primary purpose of the group, but "espionage was certainly one of its eventual objectives." He testified that Priscilla Hiss was also a member of the party. He said that when he broke from the party he had tried to persuade Alger Hiss to break with him. "He cried when we separated," Chambers said, ". . . but he absolutely refused to break." Most of the people he named stood on their constitutional rights and refused to answer the question whether they were Communists. Donald Hiss categorically denied being a Red. Alger Hiss also denied...
Prothonotary Warbler. The House Committee probed deeper. In secret session, Chambers told them details of some of the Hisses' Washington apartments, of the Hisses' habits and hobbies. Alger Hiss was an amateur ornithologist, Chambers said, and once had told Chambers how he had seen a prothonotary warbler on the banks of the Potomac. In another session with Hiss the com mittee again pressed him. Did he still insist that he did not know Chambers? Would he recognize a man who once spent a week in his house? Hiss at length said that he might have known Chambers after...
...there for ten years. He had given it to the relative in 1938 when he broke from the party, with instructions to open it if anything should happen to him or his wife, Esther. In the envelope were 43 typed copies of State Department documents and four memoranda in Alger Hiss's handwriting. Several nights later, from a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm where he had hidden them, Chambers produced five rolls of microfilm. When developed, they produced a three-ft. stack of highly confidential Government dispatches which Chambers said Hiss had given...
...Aberdeen Proving Ground. He had had them photo graphed on microfilm and had turned over the films to the Soviet spy apparatus. He said he had had two sources in the State Department: one, it developed later, was Henry Julian Wadleigh; the other, he said, was Alger Hiss...
...Alger Hiss also resigned his Carnegie post, although the trustees declined to accept his resignation until some six months later. Either he had been criminally maligned, or he was carrying a terrifying burden of concealed guilt-in which case he was facing an ordeal even more unnerving than Chambers...