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...despite the end of the cold war. Kirpichenko also says the KGB knew in advance about the invasion of the Suez by England, France and Israel in 1956 and the Egyptian surprise attack on / the Suez Canal that began the 1973 October War. Historian-writer Allen Weinstein (Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case) is the book's co-author...
EVERY ERA HAS ITS ARCHETYPAL confrontation. A previous generation had the struggle between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss about whether Hiss was a Soviet spy. The baby boomers' version is the titanic struggle between Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas. In both cases contesting claims became enmeshed in larger issues that haunted the country -- the cold war then, the war between the sexes now. And, as in the Chambers-Hiss case, the respective defenders of Hill and Thomas have never rested...
...speaks no English and has never learned to read Chinese. He does not know where San Francisco is. He is not even certain that he is in New York. He knows only this: he is in America. Hiss...
After dinner as we were walking down Quincy Street from the Faculty Club to Memorial Hall, one of the students walking with us asked if I had explained to Malcolm about hissing at Harvard. Malcolm stiffened and announced that no one was going to hiss him. He looked at me and said that I would certainly not let any student hiss me, would I? I explained that at Harvard, students often hiss a faculty member over anything from a bad joke to an additional assignment. Malcolm expressed surprise, but quickly turned to one of his colleagues saying, "Tell everyone...
...COLD WAR MYSTERIES, NONE WAS AS perplexing as the espionage case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets, tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman of the Russian government...