US Red Probe: Hiss And Chambers Clash At Hearing
Packed court room; Alger Hiss sworn in; news cameras, journalists take notes. MS Hiss speaks; “I identified Mr Chambers as the man I had known as Crosby...I can only regard his present features as having a certain familiarity...”. MCU Whittaker Chambers testifies; “Mr Hiss is lying...closest friend I ever had in the Communist Party...close friends caught in a tragedy of history...Mr Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting...I testified against him with remorse and pity”.
Anti-Communism; Anti-Communists; Congressional Investigations; Spies; Spy; HUAC; Witch hunts; 1948;
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US Red Probe: Hiss And Chambers Clash At Hearing Packed court room; Alger Hiss sworn in; news cameras, journalists take notes. MS Hiss speaks; “I identified Mr Chambers as the man I had known as Crosby...I can only regard his present features as having a certain familiarity...”. MCU Whittaker Chambers testifies; “Mr Hiss is lying...closest friend I ever had in the Communist Party...close friends caught in a tragedy of history...Mr Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting...I testified against him with remorse and pity”. Anti-Communism; Anti-Communists; Congressional Investigations; Spies; Spy; HUAC; Witch hunts; 1948;