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==New Deal==

==New Deal==

In 1933, Hiss entered government service, working in several areas as an attorney in President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]], starting with the [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]. He served briefly in the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]], and became a member of the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] of underground Communists, a Soviet espionage group. In August or September of 1934, Hiss met [[Whittaker Chambers]] and started paying Communist Party dues. He began working with the [[GRU]] in 1935 and Chambers acted as courier.  GRU ''Illegal Rezident'' [[Boris Bykov]] recommended espionage procedures, followed by Hiss, that included bringing files home nightly and retyping them.  [[Harold Glasser]] was transfered to GRU  in 1937.  Hiss's membership was later corroborated by [[Nathaniel Weyl]] who also worked in the AAA and was a member of the Ware group in testimony before the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee|McCarran Committee]]. <ref>[[Wikisource:Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus| Nathaniel Weyl testimony, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], 23 February 1953. </ref>

In 1933, Frankfurter sent Hiss a telegram urging him to join President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] in the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] under Secretary [[Henry A. Wallace]] as an attorney with the new [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], where Hiss reunited with [[Henry Collins]], [[Lee Pressman]] and [[Nathan Witt]], all of whom now joined the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] of underground Communists, a Soviet espionage group. During the early and middle thirties, Hiss was a source of agent information for another Soviet spy ring in Washington, the [[Silvermaster group]], according to a former GRU ''rezident'' in London and New York, as reported by Pavel Sudoplatov, former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR.<ref>Anatoli Sudoplatov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Leona P. Schecter and Jerrold L. Schecter, ''Special Tasks'' (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1995) ISBN 0316821152, p. 228</ref>

In 1936, Hiss and his brother [[Donald Hiss|Donald]] began working in the US State Department, where he served as assistant to [[Francis B. Sayre]], a son-in-law of [[Woodrow Wilson]], and later as an assistant to Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]].  Hiss became special assistant to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, then in 1944 special assitant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (OSPA), a policy-making office that concentrated on postwar planning for international organization and later became its director.  As such he was executive secretary at the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]], which drafted plans for the organization that would become the [[United Nations]].  

 

In 1936, Hiss and his brother [[Donald Hiss|Donald]] began working in the US State Department, where he served as assistant to [[Francis B. Sayre]], a son-in-law of [[Woodrow Wilson]], and later as an assistant to Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]].  Hiss became special assistant to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, then in 1944 special assitant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (OSPA), a policy-making office that concentrated on postwar planning for international organization and later became its director.  As such he was executive secretary at the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]], which drafted plans for the organization that would become the [[United Nations]].

==Nye Committee==

==Nye Committee==