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Committeemen brought Hiss and Chambers face to face in a New York hotel room. Hiss examined Chambers from every angle, listened to his voice. He had him open his mouth so that he could look at his teeth. He decided finally: "I am now perfectly prepared to identify this man as George Crosley...
...Documents. In an open hearing before the committee he denied that he had known that Crosley was a Communist, or that he, Hiss, had any Communist connections, and challenged Chambers to make his charges outside of the hearing room where he could be sued. Chambers said flatly: "Mr. Hiss is lying." Chambers had no personal grudge, he said. "Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting. I have testified against him with remorse and pity." Two nights later Chambers repeated his charges over the radio. A month later Hiss brought a $50,000 (later increased...
...night Chambers left one of these meetings and went home to his Westminster, Md. farm convinced that "Hiss was determined to destroy me-and my wife, if possible." From the house of a relative in Brooklyn, he recovered a dusty manila envelope which had been hidden 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...
...Indictment. Over this monumental evidence Chambers and Hiss faced each other. Chambers, after perjuring himself many times, now admitted everything...
...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...