Wow
Just wow
Those are people who independently identified Hiss as a Soviet spy
Chambers was the only one that identified Hiss as a Soviet spy.
And he changed his story how many times testifying that he was a liar and had lied many times under oath?
Two pieces of evidence ONLY convicted Hiss of perjury:
The testimony of Chambers and the typewriter that Chambers ONLY claimed was what Hiss used.
If Chambers was lying there is NO evidence. Chambers in 1948 testified that Hiss was never a spy.
Now some intelligence background for the wannabe Dick Tracys here as I have 34 years professional service in this area and have worked for decades with former CIA and Mossad members just to name a few.
Truman appointed Dulles to report on the fledgling CIA and produce recommendations. Now I know this is too far back for you youngsters that depend on Rush, Sean and Ann Coulter for all of your info but listen up and someone that has spent his entire life in the intelligence industry will lay all the facts out for you.
Dulles made his report which recommended MORE and increased responsibilities for the CIA including more covert operations to combat the REAL and ever increasing Communist threat. To make suggestions that I somehow diminish the intelligence capabilities and actions of the Soviets during this time is absurd. They had the lead on us BECAUSE OF the politically motivated misinformation being spread nationally before McCarthy. The publicity garnered by the Hiss case provided an appropriate backdrop to his themes.
Very eager to make a name for himself enter Tricky Dick Nixon who later in life I believe to be one of the greatest Presidents ever in the area of foreign diplomacy and relations. But back to the realities of his past. Nixon had already make a name for himself clawing his way to victory how? By accusing his opponent Jerry Voorhis of being what?
A communist!
Red baiting was all the rage at that time and naive and gullible voters eat it up same as when they wanted to legalize interracial marriage they claimed the communists were behind that also.
Funny, Nixon claimed Voorhis was a Communist but Voorhis served on the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC when he was in Congress.
Why is it I am the only one that has ever done any real research and investigative work here? How come you good folks are so ignorant of the facts?
Back to reality as the original charges against Hiss were brought up where? The 1948 HUAC hearings. Imagine that sports fans.
So what happens next? Chambers leads investigators out to a pumpkin patch and retrieves microfilm from a pumpkin. Nixon proclaims the results will be "shocking"! No relevance was ever made to the Hiss case from the pumpkin caper.
So the typewriter is the only thing left. The typewriter had to be in Hiss' possession on 7/8/1938 for any of Chambers' story to be true sports fans.
The serial # was #230,099 on that typewriter
The manufacturing records from the Woodstock typewriter company showed the typewriter was not manufactured until later in 1938, MONTHS AFTER 7/8/1938.
And the FBI, through Hoover, sent in an undercover FBI informant to work as an investigator for the lawyers of Hiss. That in itself would be grounds for dismissal of all charges in this time. 200 pages of Chambers statements were never given to the defense and even in that day that was an illegal move by the prosecution in the criminal rules of procedure in the discovery process. The FBI paid off someone to claim that the typewriter was the real one used even though 2 lab tests by the FBI in their own labs failed to reach that conclusion.