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...Rosenbergs' sons avowed purpose is to clear their parents' name, and they, and Alger Hiss, who filed a separate suit, will be combing FBI files in a quest for a single document or set of documents proving government maleficence--some have labelled their efforts, and those of Hiss, a search for a "smoking gun." And, indeed, that does seem to exactly their intention as they review the files...
...interviews with current and former Soviet agents. He promises to document thoroughly his research in order to pave the way for other scholars, and says there will be no anonymous sources in his books. Weinstein also draws a fundamental distinction between his efforts and those of the Meeropols and Hiss. "I can live with anything that appears in these files, and that is a comfortable situation...
...parallel action filed over three years ago by Allen Weinstein, a professor of History at Smith College and visiting fellow at the Law School. Weinstein is using the Freedom of Information Act to sue for the release of the FBI's 53,000 pages of files on the Alger Hiss case as well since he is preparing a book for publication next year to be entitled Alger and Whitaker. He expects to follow that study with a book on the Rosenberg case and anticipates that the receipt of most of the FBI materials on both cases will substantially...
...Congressman Nixon made much of the films. He was photographed peering at them through a magnifying glass. When the Justice Department asked for them, he declared that he could not turn over such precious "State and Navy Department" secrets unless the House approved, but he soon released them. When Hiss was tried for perjury, only two of the films (the two already developed) were introduced; prints from them showed State Department documents relating to U.S.German relations in the late '30s. Despite their fame, however, a prominent evidence expert, Professor Irving Younger of Cornell Law School, writes in the current...
What of the three rolls of film never produced at the trial? There were hints at the time that they contained some mysterious, unrevealed secrets. Hiss, on the other hand, has thought that they could help vindicate him. But not until last week, under the Freedom of Information Act, did he finally win his battle to obtain the secret films. One roll was entirely blank (as Chambers himself indicated in his book). The two others showed only the dimmest images, barely discernible but obviously of innocuous material on how to use a chest parachute, how to use a fire extinguisher...