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Hace 6 días · May 24, 2024 | Ellen Schrecker. Alger Hiss, accused of Communist espionage, takes an oath during hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He denied Whittaker Chambers'...
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Hace 5 días · Kenneth Schmidt examines Richard Nixon’s pursuit of Alger Hiss during the Cold War era and the pro-Communist biases that contributed to Nixon’s downfall. One of the dominant figures in US Republican politics from the 1950s through the 1970s was Richard Milhous Nixon. Nixon was a congressman, senator and vice-president under Eisenhower.
Hace 1 día · Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, farmer, and businessman who served as the 33rd vice president of the United States, from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agriculture and the 10th U.S. secretary of commerce.
Hace 6 días · The House Un-American Activities Committee, with young Congressman Richard M. Nixon playing a central role, accused Alger Hiss, a top Roosevelt aide, of being a communist spy, using testimony and documents provided by Whittaker Chambers.
Hace 1 día · HUAC is best known for its investigations of Alger Hiss and the Hollywood film industry, which led to the blacklisting of hundreds of actors, writers, and directors. HUAC was a House committee, and as such it had no formal connection to McCarthy, who served in the Senate, although the existence of the House Un-American Activities ...
Hace 6 días · This includes Alger Hiss and the rest of the 500 or so mainly American traitors he and his co-authors write about. Conversely, Vassiliev himself considers defectors from Soviet intelligence to the Free World to be “traitors”! Vassiliev makes it clear that he would never spill the beans on any known agent who was still living.
16 de may. de 2024 · In 1948, Whittaker Chambers made sensational accusations of Soviet espionage against former State Dept. official Alger Hiss; those hearings kept the committee in the headlines and provided the first national exposure for committee member Richard Nixon.
