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HUAC's files on the Hiss-Chambers case were to have been opened in 1998, fifty years after the hearings—but in 1976, the U.S. House of Representatives (then [http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1974election.pdf dominated by Democrats]) voted to seal these particular files for an additional fifty years, ensuring that they cannot be seen until 2048.<ref>Anthony Summers, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8SvufU3WsisC The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon]'' (New York, London: Penguin-Putnam Inc, 2000) ISBN 1101199482, pp. 76-77.</ref> Even these files, however, might not have satisfied the Hiss partisans: "Given the fervour exhibited by his loyalists," observe [http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/haynes.html Library of Congress Cold War historian and Soviet espionage expert John Earl Haynes] and [http://polisci.emory.edu/home/people/klehr.html Emory University professor Harvey Klehr], "it is unlikely that anything will convince [[#refTLS09|the remaining diehards]]." Asked what evidence he would accept of Hiss's guilt, reported [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/95unclass/Warner.html ex-Communist] [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf5n39n7hn&chunk.id=c01-1.7.6.4&brand=oac Sidney Hook], one Columbia University professor admitted, "Even if Hiss himself were to confess his guilt, I wouldn't believe it."<ref>Sidney Hook, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=sVJYAAAAMAAJ Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century]'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1987) ISBN 0060156325, p. 291; cf. Sidney Hook, "The Strange Case of Whittaker Chambers," ''Encounter'', January 1976, p. 78. Likewise, when the FBI was looking for old Hiss family letters to compare with the Baltimore documents and pumpkin papers, the headmistress of Washington’s [http://dcsportsfan.com/article.aspx?aid=2472 elite] [http://www.potomacschool.org/about-us/history-of-potomac/index.aspx Potomac School] (apparently [http://www.nyrevels.org/graphics/preston.gif Carol Preston])—who, "dressed in an upper class fashion and with mannerisms to match, seethed with venom” as she “refused to give any letters”—“said that if Alger Hiss told her himself that he was a Soviet spy she wouldn't believe it." ([[#refSchecter02|Schecter 2002]]: 170) A [http://www.thenation.com/archive/passings-0 professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref>
HUAC's files on the Hiss-Chambers case were to have been opened in 1998, fifty years after the hearings—but in 1976, the U.S. House of Representatives (then [http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electioninfo/1974election.pdf dominated by Democrats]) voted to seal these particular files for an additional fifty years, ensuring that they cannot be seen until 2048.<ref>Anthony Summers, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=8SvufU3WsisC The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon]'' (New York, London: Penguin-Putnam Inc, 2000) ISBN 1101199482, pp. 76-77.</ref> Even these files, however, might not have satisfied the Hiss partisans: "Given the fervour exhibited by his loyalists," observe [http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/10012/haynes.html Library of Congress Cold War historian and Soviet espionage expert John Earl Haynes] and [http://polisci.emory.edu/home/people/klehr.html Emory University professor Harvey Klehr], "it is unlikely that anything will convince [[#refTLS09|the remaining diehards]]." Asked what evidence he would accept of Hiss's guilt, reported [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/95unclass/Warner.html ex-Communist] [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf5n39n7hn&chunk.id=c01-1.7.6.4&brand=oac Sidney Hook], one Columbia University professor admitted, "Even if Hiss himself were to confess his guilt, I wouldn't believe it."<ref>Sidney Hook, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=sVJYAAAAMAAJ Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century]'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1987) ISBN 0060156325, p. 291; cf. Sidney Hook, "The Strange Case of Whittaker Chambers," ''Encounter'', January 1976, p. 78. Likewise, when the FBI was looking for old Hiss family letters to compare with the Baltimore documents and pumpkin papers, the headmistress of Washington’s [http://dcsportsfan.com/article.aspx?aid=2472 elite] [http://www.potomacschool.org/about-us/history-of-potomac/index.aspx Potomac School] (apparently [http://www.nyrevels.org/graphics/preston.gif Carol Preston])—who, "dressed in an upper class fashion and with mannerisms to match, seethed with venom” as she “refused to give any letters”—“said that if Alger Hiss told her himself that he was a Soviet spy she wouldn't believe it." ([[#refSchecter02|Schecter 2002]]: 170) A [http://www.thenation.com/archive/passings-0 professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref>
In 2007, far-left historian [[Kai Bird]] tried to argue that obscure former employee [[Wilder Foote]] was really the Soviet spy and not Alger Hiss.
==See also==
==See also==