| − | ''Time'' magazine reports that [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,985571,00.html Hiss's supporters are "dwindling"] as "the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was... a Soviet spy," adding that [[Venona project|Venona]] "seems to [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,26336,00.html remove reasonable doubt] about Alger Hiss's guilt." "For... Alger Hiss," agrees ''Newsweek'', we now have "[http://www.newsweek.com/id/197807 irrefutable confirmation] of guilt." ''U.S. News and World Report'' concurs: "Most scholars considered the case against Hiss firmly established by Allen Weinstein's ''Perjury'', published in 1978."<ref>Michael Barone, "Hiss and History," ''U.S. News and World Report'', November 25, 1996</ref> | + | ''Time'' magazine reports that [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,985571,00.html Hiss's supporters are "dwindling"] as "the weight of historical evidence indicates that Hiss was... a Soviet spy," adding that [[Venona project|Venona]] "seems to [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,26336,00.html remove reasonable doubt] about Alger Hiss's guilt." "For... Alger Hiss," agrees ''Newsweek'', we now have "[http://www.newsweek.com/id/197807 irrefutable confirmation] of guilt." ''U.S. News and World Report'' concurs: "Most scholars considered the case against Hiss firmly established by Allen Weinstein's ''Perjury'', published in 1978,"<ref>Michael Barone, "Hiss and History," ''U.S. News and World Report'', November 25, 1996</ref> adding, "The material in the Vassiliev notebooks corroborates the suspicion that Hiss was a longtime agent of Soviet military intelligence. That echoes the findings of Venona Project analysts, who concluded years ago that the code name 'Ales' in the intercepted Soviet cables was 'probably Alger Hiss.'"<ref>Alex Kingsbury, "[http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2009/07/17/declassified-documents-reveal-kgb-spies-in-the-us Declassified Documents Reveal KGB Spies in the U.S.]," ''U.S. News and World Report'', July 17, 2009</ref> |