Alger Hiss: American Hero...

[PoliticalChic]

How can there be any doubt that Alger Hiss was an American hero?

Didn't he speak at Princeton University and receive a standing ovation?? That Liberal audience cheered him as a hero.....

And doesn't Bard College have the Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies??? That liberal bastion honored him as a hero
(Lawrence Helm's Blog: The Alger Hiss Chair at Bard College)


And didn't Massachusetts, that most Liberal state, in 1972, readmit him to the bar....he, having lost his law license for some little problem....?
He must be some kind of hero.....
Mustn't he?





Let's see......
1. "Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official. Hiss was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950." Alger Hiss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





2. As Hitler marched into Poland, Whittaker Chambers arranged a private meeting with Adolf Berle, President Roosevelt’s assistant Sec’y of State. Chambers detailed the Communist espionage network, naming at least two dozen Soviet spies in Roosevelt’s administration, including Alger Hiss. Berle reported this to Roosevelt, who laughed, and told Berle to go f--- himself.
Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy: Reexaming the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator, p. 60.

a. No action was taken, and in fact, Roosevelt promoted Hiss. Almost a decade later, Chambers was called before the HUAC and named Hiss as a Soviet agent. Hiss sued Chambers, at which time Chambers presented “… four notes in Alger Hiss's handwriting, sixty-five typewritten copies of State Department documents and five strips of microfilm, some of which contained photographs of State Department documents. The press came to call these the"PumpkinPapers" Whittaker Chambers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

b. Dean Acheson, then undersecretary of Treasury, not only vouched for Hiss and his brother, Donald, also charged by Whitaker, but Acheson immediately requested Donald as his assistant. Right on cue, the press vilified HUAC for persecuting Hiss. President Truman denounced the Hiss investigation as a “red herring” by do-nothing Republicans (Whitaker Chambers, Witness, p. 564-74)
Felix Frankfurter and Adlai Stevenson offered to be character witnesses for Hiss.

c. Eleanor Roosevelt said she believed Hiss.
But the American public listened to the hearings, and they believed Chambers: a Gallup poll found 4 out of 5 supported the HUAC.(Alan Weinstein, Perjury, p. 58) And the poll included 71% of Democrats who also agreed- just not the Democrat Party!





3. And not just the Democrat politicians! No...Liberal educrats needed to see to indoctrination in the schools: The federally funded “National History Standards” for elementary schools were released in 1994, cemented a revisionist view of American Communism for schoolteachers, as the guide mentions McCarthy over twenty times, while Edison and the Wright Brothers got no mention. “It …repeatedly condemns McCarthyism as an unmitigated evil…[but] the Hiss-Chambers and Rosenberg cases, the two dominant controversies of the anticommunist era, are described with bland, neutral language crafted to keep from implying guilt while not being quite so foolhardy as to actually assert innocence..’National Standards’…implies that the cases are part and parcel of the McCarthyite horror.”
“In Denial,” by Haynes and Klehr, pg. 151



So....let's see if we can make sense of this.
Liberals cheered, supported, endorsed, iconicized a paid Soviet spy who not only reported to Joseph Stalin.....

...but who influenced the course of world events in favor of the most homicidal regime in the world?????


What can one say about folks like that?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Oh...wait a minute!...perhaps it was 'Alger Hiss, Soviet Hero!'


4. Alger Hiss succeeded in becoming part of the American delegation at Yalta. Stalin managed to win the policy debates, mainly about the future of Poland (which had been conceded to Soviet dominance at Tehran) since he, Stalin, was kept informed about classified intelligence. An idea as to how important Hiss was to Moscow is conveyed by Moscow’s congratulations to Hiss. Gorsky reported… in March 1945, after a meeting between Akhmerov and Hiss: ‘Recently ALES (Hiss) and his whole group were awarded Soviet decorations. After the Yalta conference, …passed on to him their gratitude and so on.’ ”
‘The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archives, the History of the KGB,” by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin.p.134 (quoting the Venona decrypts)






5. Why was Hiss decorated by a grateful Stalin? On February 11, 1945, millions of people living in Eastern Europe, and another two million scattered by the war in other parts of Europe were given a life sentence- and in many cases, a death sentence. They had been condemned to Stalin's custody by the Allied agreement to Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe at Yalta.... Hiss had ensured the destruction of the anti-Bolshevik masses in free Europe.
West, "American Betrayal," p. 231-232.


a. Between 2 and 4 million were forcibly transferred, many of whom became slave laborers in the Gulag.
" Operation Keelhaul; The Story of Forced Repatriation from 1944 to the Present." by Julius Epstein


b. Hiss was far from the only Soviet spy in the Roosevelt administration. Soviet spymaster Pavel Sudoplatov, whose duty it was to prepare psychological profiles of the members of the American delegation at Yalta, wrote: "I had the feeling that Hiss was acting under the instructions of Hopkins." "Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster" by Pavel Sudoplatov, Anatoli Sudoplatov, Robert Conquest and Jerrold L. Schecter






Anyone tell the Princeton folks?

Or Bard College?

Or the Massachusetts Bar Association?




Who are we kiddin'.....they're Liberals.....why would they forget a spy who worked against America.
He's their hero.

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. With the Alger Hiss case, President Nixon exposed the liberals as dupes of totalitarianism.

“To many, Mr. Hiss was a traitor whose case proved beyond doubt the existence of Communist penetration of the Government.

As the columnist George Will put it, Mr. Hiss's claim to innocence had become ''one of the long-running lies of modern American history.”
(Alger Hiss, Divisive Icon of the Cold War, Dies at 92 - NYTimes.com)


Liberals would never forgive Nixon, and so he remains in the pantheon of most hated: Watergate was the revenge. Attacks on Nixon mitigated the guilt of Hiss. In the NYTimes obituary for Hiss: his reputation seemed “to wax and wane with each new turn in the fortunes of Mr. Nixon.”

President Jimmy Carter “lectured Americans on the foolishness of their "fear of communism". (http://www.jfednepa.org/mark silverberg/jimmycarter.html)



Venona evidence regarding Alger Hiss is less conclusive, though it was sufficient for a bipartisan Commission on Government Secrecy, headed by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan to conclude "The complicity of Alger Hiss of the State Department seems settled. As does that of Harry Dexter White of the Treasury Department."[24] Whittaker Chambers - New World Encyclopedia

 

[Sunni Man]

And doesn't Bard College have the Alger Hiss Chair of Social Studies??? That liberal bastion honored him as a hero
(Lawrence Helm's Blog: The Alger Hiss Chair at Bard College)

How pathetic that an American university considers a traitor and a spy a hero. .

 

[daveman]

Progressive sure do love traitors to America, don't they?

They wouldn't if they didn't hate America so much.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Progressive sure do love traitors to America, don't they?

They wouldn't if they didn't hate America so much.

Not much has changed.

1. Liberals/Progressives do so because they are either unaware of the depth and breadth of treachery of their members who have done damage to America....and because the media minimizes said damage....or doesn't report it at all.




2. Presidnent Nixon is a case in point. Articles of impeachment drawn up to put pressure on Nixon to resign said the following:

"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for the purpose not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner."


a. Why was the word 'endeavored' used?
en•deav•or
verb

try hard to do or achieve something.

b. It was used because Nixon allegedly spoke to John Dean about doing it....he spoke about doing it.
" During the Senate's Watergate Hearing, White House Counsel at the time John Dean mentioned "Nixon's Enemies List." IRS No Stranger to High-Profile Scandals Involving Presidents, Civil Rights Leaders, Religious Groups - ABC News






3. Now....what of a President who did use the IRS against his political adversaries? Where is the opprobrium? The articles of impeachment? The editorial vituperation?


"Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?
The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts.
March 31, 2010.
According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.
The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:
Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010 12:30


The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees -- the same employees who belong to the NTEU -- set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:
April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.


In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union -- the union for IRS employees -- met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As stated by the IG report.

On yet another occasion, Kelley’s presence at the White House was followed shortly afterwards by the President issuing Executive Order 13522. A presidential directive that gave the anti-Tea Party NTEU -- the IRS union -- a greater role in the day-to-day operation of the IRS than it had already -- which was considerable.
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun? | The American Spectator



a. Congress Receives Irrefutable Evidence of IRS Harassment of Pro-Life Organizations
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2...-of-irs-harassment-of-pro-life-organizations/





Nixon 'mentioned' using the IRS......Obama used the IRS.
Which one is the hero of the Liberals/Progressives?



Since the times of Alger Hiss.....Not much has changed.

 

[daveman]

1. Liberals/Progressives do so because they are either unaware of the depth and breath of treachery of their members who have done damage to America....and because the media minimizes said damage....or doesn't report it at all.

Or, in many cases...because they agree with the motives of the traitor and support the damage he's done.

 

[gipper]

The Alger Hiss case is a perfect example of the dumbing down of Americans. Millions of Americans believe he was unjustly accused, yet the evidence of his treason is overwhelming.

This clearly indicates a massive misinformation effort by the Left, who controls the media, Hollywood, education at all levels, and most of the federal government.

Tell a lie long enough and many will believe it. That is certainly true in the Hiss case.

 

[editec]

Alger Hiss?

Wasn't he the guy who sold stolen missiles to the Iranian terrorist regime, so he could fund the Central American terrorist who were killing American Nuns?

Oh wait...that was President Ronald Reagan, wasn't it?

Never mind.

 

[PoliticalChic]

The Alger Hiss case is a perfect example of the dumbing down of Americans. Millions of Americans believe he was unjustly accused, yet the evidence of his treason is overwhelming.

This clearly indicates a massive misinformation effort by the Left, who controls the media, Hollywood, education at all levels, and most of the federal government.

Tell a lie long enough and many will believe it. That is certainly true in the Hiss case.

Some know full well who the traitors were/are, and attempt to hide their embarrassment in supporting same as some sort of tortuous 'humor.'

As is the case in the post below yours.

 

[daveman]

Alger Hiss?

Wasn't he the guy who sold stolen missiles to the Iranian terrorist regime, so he could fund the Central American terrorist who were killing American Nuns?

Oh wait...that was President Ronald Reagan, wasn't it?

Never mind.

And that excuses the progressive Hiss' treason and the left's lionization of him...how, exactly?

Oh, wait -- it doesn't.

Never mind.

 

[elektra]

I ran across this earlier in the evening, thought I would share after seeing this thread.

Setting the Record on Joe McCarthy Straight | FrontPage Magazine

As a result of the material that has emerged from Russian archives and the release of the Venona files, we now know a great deal about the extent of Soviet espionage from the 1930s through the 1940s. There is no longer any question about the fact that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were Soviet spies (although Ethel played a very minor role). Julius is identifiable in Venona under the code-name Liberal. By the way, the use of code names shows that the KGB had a macabre sense of humor. The code name for their bitter enemies, the Trotskyists, was Polecats, Zionists were Rats, San Francisco was Babylon and Washington DC was Carthage.

There is no doubt that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy and continued to provide information through the Yalta Conference which he attended as an advisor to FDR. The Soviets thoroughly infiltrated the Manhattan Project and were able to build an atomic bomb several years before they otherwise would have because of such spies as Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist, convicted of espionage in the late 1940s and Theodore Hall, a young American physicist who died in Britain in 1999, who had never been publicly named as a spy until the Venona material was released. Hall had graduated from Harvard at 19 and was immediately recruited and sent to Los Alamos. A dedicated communist, he got in contact with the KGB after learning what he was working on. Although the FBI questioned him after Venona decryptions revealed his treachery, there was no legally admissible evidence against him (the government had made a decision not to use Venona material n court; in fact, it was doubtful that it would be legally admissible). Since he denied everything and there were no cooperating witnesses, it was not possible to prosecute him. At least two other important atomic spies turned over top secret information to the KGB but American counter-intelligence was never able to link the cover names in the messages — Quantum and Fogel — to real people.

All told, some 350 Americans turn out to have worked for Soviet intelligence during World War II — a time when we were allies. American counter-intelligence eventually identified more than 125 of these agents — but were never able to nail down who the other 200 plus were. Virtually every one of the people accused of being a Soviet agent by Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers — both reviled and denounced for making false charges not only by political partisans in the 1940s but by historians ever since — turns out to have been a Soviet spy.

No Federal agency was immune to Soviet penetration. There were at least 16 Soviet agents in the OSS, predecessor to the CIA, including Duncan Lee, chief counsel to General William Donovan. The Office of war Information, the Board of Economic Warfare, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, War Production Board, War Department, Signal Corps, Censorship office, the Justice Department were all penetrated. In the State Department Alger Hiss was not the only Soviet spy. Larry Duggan, in charge of Latin American affairs, was an agent. Lauchlin Currie, one of six presidential assistants, provided information. The most highly placed spy was Harry Dexter White, the number two man the Treasury Department and one of the architects of the post-war international financial order — he designed the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Bretton Woods agreement. The KGB so valued White’s information — including meetings at the founding UN conference where he revealed the American negotiating strategy — that when he hinted at leaving government service because of financial pressures, the KGB offered to pay his daughter’s college tuition.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Alger Hiss is directly responsible for the enslavement of hundreds of million under the dehumanizing yoke of Soviet Communism. Unlike the Useful Idiots at USMB who support him and his cause, he was rewarded for his treachery.

He was a traitor and should have met a traitors end.

 

[JakeStarkey]

PC is right that Alger Hiss was a traitor.

We will find characters in the future similar to Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy who will be found to be anti-American figures and maybe traitors, also.

 

[PoliticalChic]

PC is right that Alger Hiss was a traitor.

We will find characters in the future similar to Ted Cruz and Joe McCarthy who will be found to be anti-American figures and maybe traitors, also.

Senator Joe McCarthy confronted government officials concealing communist involvement and excessively lax security with regards to Communists in sensitive U.S. Government posts. In many cases he was on target, with over 81 of the names he gave the Tydings committee resulting in resignations or movement of security risks. Given that over 200 of the spies uncovered in the Venona decrypts were never identified, we can only speculate as to the national security impact of removing Communists from key DoD and State Dept posts.
Coulter



Arthur Herman, author of "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator," says that the accuracy of McCarthy's charges "was no longer a matter of debate," that they are "now accepted as fact."

And The New York Post's Eric Fettmann has noted: "growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial - McCarthy was a lot closer to the truth about Communism than were his foes."




It takes a very special kind of duplicitous scoundrel to suggest that Senator McCarthy was a traitor.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Only a flounder bounder would suggest Joe McCarthy was anything more than a political enemy of American values. The comment "growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial" is absolutely correct. McCarthy wrapped himself in the flag while trying to destroy his enemies. And it was his own party, the GOP in the Senate, that dragged him down. Have you no decency for telling the whole truth, ma'am?

 

[Sunni Man]

History has proven Senator Joe McCarthy to be both correct and a patriot.

Only uninformed partisan idiots suggest otherwise. ...

 

[PoliticalChic]

Only a flounder bounder would suggest Joe McCarthy was anything more than a political enemy of American values. The comment "growing historical evidence underscores that, whatever his rhetorical and investigative excesses - and they were substantial" is absolutely correct. McCarthy wrapped himself in the flag while trying to destroy his enemies. And it was his own party, the GOP in the Senate, that dragged him down. Have you no decency for telling the whole truth, ma'am?

"McCarthy wrapped himself in the flag while trying to destroy his enemies."




Some folks have claimed that you are stupid.

Some have claimed 'very stupid.'


Watch how easily I prove that the above mentioned folks are far, far too complimentary in reference to your ability.....


destroy: To ruin completely; spoil

Name any who were not communists who were 'destroyed' by that American hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy.


Or....simply admit that the slander you posted is based on your ignorance.

 

[Moonglow]

1. Liberals/Progressives do so because they are either unaware of the depth and breadth of treachery of their members who have done damage to America....and because the media minimizes said damage....or doesn't report it at all.

Please provide the proof that all liberals/progressives are like that, including myself. Or learn the proper use of words to describe a few, but not all.

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. Liberals/Progressives do so because they are either unaware of the depth and breadth of treachery of their members who have done damage to America....and because the media minimizes said damage....or doesn't report it at all.

Please provide the proof that all liberals/progressives are like that, including myself. Or learn the proper use of words to describe a few, but not all.

"Please provide the proof that all liberals/progressives are like that, including myself."
No problem.

Get ready to be embarrassed.


1. Let's begin....as is so often necessary....with a lesson in vocabulary.

de facto : in fact, or in effect, whether by right or not; denoting someone or something that is such in fact.

de jure denoting something or someone that is rightfully such.



OK....ready?


2. This site, The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

which lists "The Communist Takeover Of
America - 45 Declared Goals"

Study them....

You will find that the vast majority of said goals are endorsed by the Democrat/Liberal/Progressive establishment.




3. When you pull the lever for one of those elites.....you are endorsing all of the goals they endorse.
That's the two-party system.

And that's what you don't seem to understand.
You vote for Democrat/Liberal/Progressives.....giving them your power makes you them.

You are de facto one of 'em.



If you voted for Democrats, you voted to put Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, and you voted to pass a bill you had not read.
You gave us ObamaCare.
Proud?