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"[T]he material we now have from the [[Soviet Union]]," says [http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/323/about-brasenose-31/academic-staff-150/professor-vernon-bogdanor-520.html Oxford Professor] Vernon Bogdanor, shows that Hiss "was indeed [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/harry-truman-president-1945-1953 a Soviet agent]." "Part of Hiss's [[KGB]] file has come out that proves the obvious point he was [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/08/russia.davidsmith guilty as charged]," agrees [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cma1001@cam.ac.uk Cambridge University]'s Christopher Andrew, the [http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/08/10/the-debate-over-soviet-espionage-what-nicholas-lemann-of-the-new-yorker-gets-wrong/ dean of British historians of Soviet espionage]. "[C]orroborative evidence now available," according to Andrew and [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/europe/23poison.html ex-KGB agent] Vasili Mitrokhin, puts the identification of the Soviet agent "Ales" as Hiss "beyond reasonable doubt."<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (London: Gardners Books, 2000) ISBN 0-14-028487-7, p. 599</ref> "Numerous KGB/[[NKVD]] documents... contain extensive references to Hiss," concurs Mark Kramer, [http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research_portal/hpcws.html director of the Project for Cold War Studies] at [[Harvard University]], "either by name or through the codename Ales, which seems to fit [http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/37819.html only Hiss]." According to Harvard historian [http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/plokhii.php Serhii Plokhii], "New evidence from the Soviet archives supports the thesis that Hiss was a Soviet spy at the time of the Yalta Conference."<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0wOKfjnXdAUC Yalta: The Price of Peace]'' (Penguin, 2010) ISBN 0670021415, p. xxv</ref> Jonathan Brent, [http://www.yale.edu/annals/Team.htm executive editor of Yale University Press's "Annals of Communism"] (and&mdash;ironically&mdash;[http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php?action=details&id=1380 holder of the "Alger Hiss" chair] at Bard College), comments, "We're 99 percent certain that [http://www.heymiller.com/2009/06/the-annals-of-jonathan-brent/ Hiss was a spy]."

"[T]he material we now have from the [[Soviet Union]]," says [http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/323/about-brasenose-31/academic-staff-150/professor-vernon-bogdanor-520.html Oxford Professor] Vernon Bogdanor, shows that Hiss "was indeed [http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/harry-truman-president-1945-1953 a Soviet agent]." "Part of Hiss's [[KGB]] file has come out that proves the obvious point he was [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/08/russia.davidsmith guilty as charged]," agrees [http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/cma1001@cam.ac.uk Cambridge University]'s Christopher Andrew, the [http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/08/10/the-debate-over-soviet-espionage-what-nicholas-lemann-of-the-new-yorker-gets-wrong/ dean of British historians of Soviet espionage]. "[C]orroborative evidence now available," according to Andrew and [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/world/europe/23poison.html ex-KGB agent] Vasili Mitrokhin, puts the identification of the Soviet agent "Ales" as Hiss "beyond reasonable doubt."<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (London: Gardners Books, 2000) ISBN 0-14-028487-7, p. 599</ref> "Numerous KGB/[[NKVD]] documents... contain extensive references to Hiss," concurs Mark Kramer, [http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/research_portal/hpcws.html director of the Project for Cold War Studies] at [[Harvard University]], "either by name or through the codename Ales, which seems to fit [http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/37819.html only Hiss]." According to Harvard historian [http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/plokhii.php Serhii Plokhii], "New evidence from the Soviet archives supports the thesis that Hiss was a Soviet spy at the time of the Yalta Conference."<ref>Serhii Plokhy, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=0wOKfjnXdAUC Yalta: The Price of Peace]'' (Penguin, 2010) ISBN 0670021415, p. xxv</ref> Jonathan Brent, [http://www.yale.edu/annals/Team.htm executive editor of Yale University Press's "Annals of Communism"] (and&mdash;ironically&mdash;[http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php?action=details&id=1380 holder of the "Alger Hiss" chair] at Bard College), comments, "We're 99 percent certain that [http://www.heymiller.com/2009/06/the-annals-of-jonathan-brent/ Hiss was a spy]."

"[R]ecently released evidence in U.S. and Soviet archives, taken together with some previously available testimony of persons connected with Soviet intelligence in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s," writes [http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/PrFMPbW/gew University of Virginia Law School Professor] G. Edward White ([https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/alger_hiss.html son-in-law of Hiss's attorney] John F. Davis), "supports Chambers's charges [http://ssrn.com/abstract=311869 against Hiss]." [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/world/arthur-martin-81-british-spy-catcher-who-exposed-blunt.html Soviet espionage expert] Stephen Koch agrees, "I for one have been brought close to certainty, on the basis of archival information, that Chambers was telling the truth."<ref>Stephen Koch, ''[http://www.stephenkoch.net/?page_id=156 Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals]'' (New York: Free Press, 1994) ISBN 0-02-918730-3, p. 326</ref> "We now know," states[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/mi5_ww2_01.shtml intelligence expert] Nigel West, "that Alger Hiss was a spy."<ref>Nigel West, "Venona and Cold War Counterintelligence Methodology," in Loch K. Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cg39hcj6AxQC Strategic Intelligence]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007) ISBN 0275989437, p. 15</ref> "The broad sweep of Chambers' allegations are now beyond doubt," according to Richard Aldrich [http://www.richardaldrich.co.uk/ of the University of London] and David McKnight [http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/staff.php?first=David&last=McKnight of the University of New South Wales].<ref>David McKnight and Richard J. Aldrich, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=t4DGUfDWKwgC Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage]'' (Oxford: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 071465163X, p. 128</ref> Hiss not only "had been a communist," concludes historian [http://history.cua.edu/faculty/Kimmage/ Michael Kimmage], but committed "espionage for Stalin's Soviet Union."<ref>Michael Kimmage, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jAfATcPNOhUC The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism]'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN 0674032586, pp. 202, 172, 219. Elsewhere Kimmage writes that Hiss "[http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/michael_kimmage_interview_trilling_chambers_anti-communism_conservative_tur/ spied for the Soviet Union]."</ref>

"[R]ecently released evidence in U.S. and Soviet archives, taken together with some previously available testimony of persons connected with Soviet intelligence in the United States in the 1930s and 1940s," writes [http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/PrFMPbW/gew University of Virginia Law School Professor] G. Edward White ([https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/alger_hiss.html son-in-law of Hiss's attorney] John F. Davis), "supports Chambers's charges [http://ssrn.com/abstract=311869 against Hiss]." [http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/04/world/arthur-martin-81-british-spy-catcher-who-exposed-blunt.html Soviet espionage expert] Stephen Koch agrees, "I for one have been brought close to certainty, on the basis of archival information, that Chambers was telling the truth."<ref>Stephen Koch, ''[http://www.stephenkoch.net/?page_id=156 Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals]'' (New York: Free Press, 1994) ISBN 0-02-918730-3, p. 326</ref> "We now know," states [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/mi5_ww2_01.shtml intelligence expert] Nigel West, "that Alger Hiss was a spy."<ref>Nigel West, "Venona and Cold War Counterintelligence Methodology," in Loch K. Johnson, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=cg39hcj6AxQC Strategic Intelligence]'' (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007) ISBN 0275989437, p. 15</ref> "The broad sweep of Chambers' allegations are now beyond doubt," according to Richard Aldrich [http://www.richardaldrich.co.uk/ of the University of London] and David McKnight [http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/staff.php?first=David&last=McKnight of the University of New South Wales].<ref>David McKnight and Richard J. Aldrich, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=t4DGUfDWKwgC Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage]'' (Oxford: Routledge, 2002) ISBN 071465163X, p. 128</ref> Hiss not only "had been a communist," concludes historian [http://history.cua.edu/faculty/Kimmage/ Michael Kimmage], but committed "espionage for Stalin's Soviet Union."<ref>Michael Kimmage, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jAfATcPNOhUC The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism]'' (Harvard University Press, 2009) ISBN 0674032586, pp. 202, 172, 219. Elsewhere Kimmage writes that Hiss "[http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/michael_kimmage_interview_trilling_chambers_anti-communism_conservative_tur/ spied for the Soviet Union]."</ref>

==Scholarly consensus==

==Scholarly consensus==