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The following month, Hiss was promoted to become Director of the State Department Office of Special Political Affairs. [[Alexander Vassiliev]]'s notes on a cable of the era, ([[Anatoly Gorsky|Vadim]] to Moscow Center, 5 March 1945) which Vassiliev discovered in the Soviet archives, read in part:

The following month, Hiss was promoted to become Director of the State Department Office of Special Political Affairs. [[Alexander Vassiliev]]'s notes on a cable of the era, ([[Anatoly Gorsky|Vadim]] to Moscow Center, 5 March 1945) which Vassiliev discovered in the Soviet archives, read in part:

{{cquote|He [[Anatoly Gorsky|Gorsky]] wants to be included in the Sov. delegation to the conference in San Francisco. However, he can't leave his post to any of his collaborators. He wants to leave it to "Son" (F.A. Garanin, transferred from Cuba to Washington as an attaché of the Soviet embassy). After the conference, [[Anatoly Gorsky|Vadim]] wants to come to Moscow to give a personal report.

{{cquote|He ([[Anatoly Gorsky|Gorsky]]) wants to be included in the Sov. delegation to the conference in San Francisco.... After the conference, [[Anatoly Gorsky|Vadim]] wants to come to Moscow to give a personal report.

Particular attention – to "Ales."  He was at the Yalta Conference, then went to Mexico City and hasn't returned yet.  Our only key to him – "[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]"....

Particular attention – to "Ales."  He was at the Yalta Conference, then went to Mexico City and hasn't returned yet.  Our only key to him – "[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]"....

"We spoke with '[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]' several times about 'Ales'.  As we have written already, 'Ruble' gives 'Ales' an exceptionally good political reference as a member of the [[Communist Party|Comparty]]. 'Ruble' reports that 'Ales' is strong and strong-willed, with a firm and decisive nature, completely aware that he is Communist in an illegal position, with all the ensuing consequences.... As we already reported to you, 'Ales' and 'Ruble' used to work in '[[Whittaker Chambers|Karl]]'s' informational group, which was affiliated with the neighbors.  When the connection with 'Karl' was lost, 'Ruble' backed out, while 'Ales' entered into a connection with 'Pol'.  He told 'Ruble' about this himself a year and a half ago, when he asked the latter to meet with 'Pol' in order to continue work."

"We spoke with '[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]' several times about 'Ales'.  As we have written already, 'Ruble' gives 'Ales' an exceptionally good political reference as a member of the [[Communist Party|Comparty]]. 'Ruble' reports that 'Ales' is strong and strong-willed, with a firm and decisive nature, completely aware that he is Communist in an illegal position, with all the ensuing consequences.... As we already reported to you, 'Ales' and 'Ruble' used to work in '[[Whittaker Chambers|Karl]]'s' informational group, which was affiliated with the [[GRU|neighbors]].  When the connection with 'Karl' was lost, 'Ruble' backed out, while 'Ales' entered into a connection with 'Pol'.  He told 'Ruble' about this himself a year and a half ago, when he asked the latter to meet with 'Pol' in order to continue work."

"[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]" could talk to "Ales"  about recommencing work.  If the latter doesn't want to work with "Ruble," he could do it with us.

"[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]" could talk to "Ales"  about recommencing work.  If the latter doesn't want to work with "Ruble," he could do it with us.

There is an unclear situation: "About 6 months ago, 'Ales' told 'Ruble' that he had met a Russian (he didn't give his name), who immediately asked him to write a brief report about a certain matter.  'Ales' asked 'Ruble's' opinion as to what he should do. 'Ruble' evaded the question, saying that 'Ales' could do as he saw fit.

There is an unclear situation: "About 6 months ago, 'Ales' told 'Ruble' that he had met a Russian (he didn't give his name), who immediately asked him to write a brief report about a certain matter.  'Ales' asked 'Ruble's' opinion as to what he should do. 'Ruble' evaded the question, saying that 'Ales' could do as he saw fit.

Canadian Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] wrote that acting under-secretary of state for external affairs Robertson told him that Gouzenko’s documents disclosed that “everything was much worse than we would have believed…. Stettinius [had] been surrounded by spies, etc….”<ref>[http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/smileymi/Global%20History%2012/a_short_essay_on_the_cold_war.htm William Lyon Mackenzie King, diary entry for September 7, 1945]. "Mr. Smiley's World of Social Studies and English Page" (Halifax Regional School Board Teacher Webspace)</ref>

Canadian Prime Minister [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] wrote that acting under-secretary of state for external affairs Robertson told him that Gouzenko’s documents disclosed that “everything was much worse than we would have believed…. Stettinius [had] been surrounded by spies, etc….”<ref>[http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/smileymi/Global%20History%2012/a_short_essay_on_the_cold_war.htm William Lyon Mackenzie King, diary entry for September 7, 1945]. "Mr. Smiley's World of Social Studies and English Page" (Halifax Regional School Board Teacher Webspace)</ref>

Two days after Gouzenko's defection, Hiss proposed that the State Department create a new post, that of "special assistant for military affairs," linked to his Office of Special Political Affairs.<ref>Sam Tanenhaus, ''Whittaker Chambers: A Biography'' (New York: Random House, 1997) ISBN 0375751459, p. 519</ref> Following up on Gouzeno's revelations, Raymond Murphy of the State Department again interviewed Chambers, who repeated that Hiss' assignment was "to mess up policy."<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 366</ref>

Two days after Gouzenko's defection, Hiss proposed that the State Department create a new post, that of "special assistant for military affairs," linked to his Office of Special Political Affairs.<ref>Sam Tanenhaus, ''Whittaker Chambers: A Biography'' (New York: Random House, 1997) ISBN 0375751459, p. 519</ref> Following up on Gouzeno's revelations, Raymond Murphy of the State Department again interviewed Chambers, who repeated that Hiss' assignment was "to mess up policy."<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 366</ref>

On November 27, 1945, the FBI disseminated a secret report to the State Department, the Attorney General, and the Truman White House, reporting Chambers' identification of Hiss as a secret member of the Communist underground apparatus in contact with the Ware group.<ref>FBI Report: Soviet Espionage Activities in the United States Between World War I and World War II, November 27, 1945, p. 13</ref> Three days later, defecting Soviet courier [[Elizabeth Bentley]] advised FBI investigators that [[Victor Perlo]] told her that [[Harold Glasser]] had been taken away from the “Perlo Group” and turned over to a Russian “by some American in some governmental agency in Washington.” She said that [[Charles Kramer]] told her that the person who had done this “was named Hiss and that he was in the U.S. State Department.”

On November 27, 1945, the FBI disseminated a secret report to the State Department, the Attorney General, and the Truman White House, reporting Chambers' identification of Hiss as a secret member of the Communist underground apparatus in contact with the Ware group.<ref>FBI Report: Soviet Espionage Activities in the United States Between World War I and World War II, November 27, 1945, p. 13</ref> Three days later, defecting Soviet courier [[Elizabeth Bentley]] advised FBI investigators that [[Victor Perlo]] told her that [[Harold Glasser]] had been taken away from the “Perlo Group” and turned over to a Russian “by some American in some governmental agency in Washington.” She said that [[Charles Kramer]] told her that the person who had done this “was named Hiss and that he was in the U.S. State Department.”

Bentley's unlikely account was corroborated by an 25 April 1945 memo from [[Pavel Fitin]], head of [[NKVD]] foreign intelligence, to NKVD Chief [[Vsevolod Merkulov]], noting that Glasser had worked for both the [[NKVD]] and [[GRU]]:

Bentley's unlikely account was corroborated by an 25 April 1945 memo from [[Pavel Fitin]], head of [[NKVD]] foreign intelligence, to NKVD Chief [[Vsevolod Merkulov]], noting that Glasser had worked for both the [[NKVD]] and [[GRU]]:

{{cquote|Our agent RUBLE, drawn to work for the Soviet Union in May 1937, passed initially through the [[GRU|military "neighbors"]] and then through our station [[[NKVD]]] valuable information on political and economic issues.... To our work RUBLE gives much attention and energy and is devoted and disciplined agent.}}

{{cquote|Our agent RUBLE, drawn to work for the Soviet Union in May 1937, passed initially through the [[GRU|military "neighbors"]] and then through our station ([[NKVD]]) valuable information on political and economic issues.... To our work RUBLE gives much attention and energy and is devoted and disciplined agent.}}

Bentley said she later clipped an article from the left-wing New York daily ''PM'' “in which Hiss was mentioned.” She said “It is my present recollection that this newspaper article stated Hiss’ full name was Eugene Hiss and that he was an adviser to Dean Acheson in the State Department.”<ref>[http://ultra-secret.info/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster006_Folder/Silvermaster006_page106.pdf Silvermaster file, Vol. 6, p. 105 (PDF p. 106)]</ref> FBI investigation quickly closed in on Alger Hiss. <ref>[http://ultra-secret.info/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster082_Folder/Silvermaster082_page119.pdf FBI Report: Underground Soviet Espionage Organization (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, p. 108 (PDF p. 119)]</ref>

Bentley said she later clipped an article from the left-wing New York daily ''PM'' “in which Hiss was mentioned.” She said “It is my present recollection that this newspaper article stated Hiss’ full name was Eugene Hiss and that he was an adviser to Dean Acheson in the State Department.”<ref>[http://ultra-secret.info/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster006_Folder/Silvermaster006_page106.pdf Silvermaster file, Vol. 6, p. 105 (PDF p. 106)]</ref> FBI investigation quickly closed in on Alger Hiss. <ref>[http://ultra-secret.info/PDFs/splitfiles/splitprocessed/Silvermaster082_Folder/Silvermaster082_page119.pdf FBI Report: Underground Soviet Espionage Organization (NKVD) in Agencies of the United States Government, p. 108 (PDF p. 119)]</ref>

Hiss became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served until May 5, 1949.  Hiss also served as a trustee on the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]].<ref>Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, [[SISS]] report (July 30, 1953), pp. 8-10.</ref>

Hiss became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and served until May 5, 1949.  Hiss also served as a trustee on the [[Institute of Pacific Relations]].<ref>Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments, [[SISS]] report (July 30, 1953), pp. 8-10.</ref>

In 1948, [[Alexander Barmine]], former Charge d'Affairs at the Soviet Embassy in Athens, Greece, who had defected in 1937, told FBI investigators "that he had heard Alger Hiss referred to as being an agent of Soviet military intelligence. A 1949 FBI report said, according to Barmine, his source was former [[GRU]] chief in Europe [[Walter Krivitsky]], who defected in Paris in 1938 and was found dead in his Washington hotel room in 1941.<ref>FBI Report: Alger Hiss, February 4, 1949</ref>

In 1948, [[Alexander Barmine]], former Charge d'Affairs at the Soviet Embassy in Athens, Greece, who had defected in 1937, told FBI investigators that he had heard Alger Hiss referred to as being an agent of Soviet military intelligence. A 1949 FBI report said, according to Barmine, his source was former [[GRU]] chief in Europe [[Walter Krivitsky]], who defected in Paris in 1938 and was found dead in his Washington hotel room in 1941.<ref>FBI Report: Alger Hiss, February 4, 1949</ref>

Meanwhile in Moscow, [[Anatoly Gorsky]], who had been chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S. during World War II, authored an internal [[KI|Soviet secret police]] [[Gorsky memo|memorandum]] in which he listed 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to be identified to American authorities by Bentley after her defection, included on the list was Alger Hiss.<ref>[http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, Tr. Ronald Bachman and Harold Leich, assisted by John Earl Haynes]</ref>

Meanwhile in Moscow, [[Anatoly Gorsky]], who had been chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S. during World War II, authored an internal [[KI|Soviet secret police]] [[Gorsky memo|memorandum]] in which he listed 43 Soviet sources and intelligence officers likely to be identified to American authorities by Bentley after her defection, included on the list was Alger Hiss.<ref>[http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Alexander Vassiliev's Notes on Anatoly Gorsky's December 1948 Memo on Compromised American Sources and Networks, Tr. Ronald Bachman and Harold Leich, assisted by John Earl Haynes]</ref>