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...Crimson: Why this sudden interest in the 1950s, in the McCarthy period, in the Hiss and Rosenberg cases...
...Hiss' conviction was seized upon by some conservatives as proof that there were Communists in the government, a Fifth Column of sorts, and the case helped pave the way for McCarthy's demagoguery (he was to constantly refer to Hiss in his first major speech on Communism in Wheeling, West Virginia...
Weinstein, who successfully sued under the Freedom of Information Act to see FBI files on the case, now says his research there, and in Hiss defense files, has led him to believe that Chambers was telling the truth on the major points and that there was no frame-up of Hiss. In a book review of John Chabot Smith's Alger Hiss: The True Story (April 1, 1976 The New York Review of Books) Weinstein first advanced his findings--a switch from his earlier position expressed in the early 1970s that Hiss might be innocent. Smith's book argued...
Weinstein, a self-described "left-liberal," now waits for his own book Perjury: The Hiss Chambers Conflict, to be published by Knopf next year to answer his critics. While Weinstein claims to have a measure of objectivity--"I don't deny Whittaker Chambers told whoppers and lies, I'm simply saying on most major points at issue Alger Hiss told the greater and more significant ones"--he also says no one book can yet completely and adequately tell the full story of the Hiss case...
Weinstein: There's a great deal of useful documentary culling. There's an enormous record being built up partly through Freedom of Information Act suits such as my own and the Meeropols (the Rosenberg's sons) and Alger Hiss and others against the FBI and CIA, disgorging materials which five years ago scholars like myself could not obtain...