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The following year, Hiss was promoted to become deputy director of the State Department's [[Office of Special Political Affairs]], a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>Gregor Dallas, ''1945: The War that Never Ended'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) ISBN 0300109806), p. 412</ref> In August 1944, he organized the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]],<ref>Douglas O. Linder, [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html The Trials of Alger Hiss: A Commentary], Famous Trials: The Alger Hiss Trials, 1949-50 (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2003)</ref> where he served as executive secretary,<ref>Robert G. Whalen, "[http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/chambers-strange.html Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men]," ''The New York Times'', December 12, 1948</ref><ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811892.html The Case of Alger Hiss]," ''Time'', February 13, 1950</ref> presiding over the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter.<ref>[http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/history/dumbarton.shtml Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta], History of the Charter of the United Nations (UN.org)</ref>

The following year, Hiss was promoted to become deputy director of the State Department's [[Office of Special Political Affairs]], a policy-making office for postwar planning and international organization.<ref>Gregor Dallas, ''1945: The War that Never Ended'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) ISBN 0300109806), p. 412</ref> In August 1944, he organized the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]],<ref>Douglas O. Linder, [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissaccount.html The Trials of Alger Hiss: A Commentary], Famous Trials: The Alger Hiss Trials, 1949-50 (University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, 2003)</ref> where he served as executive secretary,<ref>Robert G. Whalen, "[http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/chambers-strange.html Hiss and Chambers: Strange Story of Two Men]," ''The New York Times'', December 12, 1948</ref><ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811892.html The Case of Alger Hiss]," ''Time'', February 13, 1950</ref> presiding over the drafting of the proposed [[United Nations]] Charter.<ref>[http://www.un.org/aboutun/charter/history/dumbarton.shtml Dumbarton Oaks and Yalta], History of the Charter of the United Nations (UN.org)</ref>

By 1948, Assistant Secretary of State Berle would be ousted from the State Department, serving as chairman of New York's Liberal Party. That year, the New York bureau of the ''Christian Science Monitor'' would send a teletype to the home office in Boston, relating a background interview with the party's publicity director, Arnold Beichman:

By 1948 Berle, ousted from the State Department, would be serving as chairman of New York's Liberal Party. That year, the New York bureau of the ''Christian Science Monitor'' would send a teletype to the home office in Boston, relating a background interview with the party's publicity director, Arnold Beichman:

{{cquote|From a thoroughly reliable contact: According to this informant Berle has said privately that classified material which Hiss was handling was reaching the Russians. It was coded stuff. Berle took the handling out of Hiss' hands and the leaks stopped.<ref>Ralph de Toledano, “[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238 Embarrassment aided and abetted the Top Soviet spy - Alger Hiss],” ''Insight on the News'', January 27, 1997</ref>}}

{{cquote|From a thoroughly reliable contact: According to this informant Berle has said privately that classified material which Hiss was handling was reaching the Russians. It was coded stuff. Berle took the handling out of Hiss' hands and the leaks stopped.<ref>Ralph de Toledano, “[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238 Embarrassment aided and abetted the Top Soviet spy - Alger Hiss],” ''Insight on the News'', January 27, 1997</ref>}}

Shortly thereafter, Berle was ousted as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, defeated by the State Department's pro-Soviet faction, Hiss prominent among them. As Berle put it:

Shortly thereafter, Berle was ousted as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of security, defeated by the State Department's pro-Soviet faction, Hiss prominent among them. As Berle put it: