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That year, General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informed President Truman that Venona had "positively identified" Hiss and [[Harry Dexter White]] as Soviet agents.<ref>Jerrold and Leona Schecter, ''Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History'' (Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2002) ISBN 1574885227, p. 149</ref> According to Bradley, Truman said, "That G—D— stuff. Every time it bumps into us it gets bigger and bigger. It's likely to take us down."<ref>William Rusher, "[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp A Closer Look Under The Bed]," ''Claremont Review of Books'', Fall 2004</ref>
That year, General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informed President Truman that Venona had "positively identified" Hiss and [[Harry Dexter White]] as Soviet agents.<ref>Jerrold and Leona Schecter, ''Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History'' (Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 2002) ISBN 1574885227, p. 149</ref> According to Bradley, Truman said, "That G—D— stuff. Every time it bumps into us it gets bigger and bigger. It's likely to take us down."<ref>William Rusher, "[http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1375/article_detail.asp A Closer Look Under The Bed]," ''Claremont Review of Books'', Fall 2004</ref>
Hiss appealed, but in December 1950 his conviction was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals<ref>[http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms002504.html Alger Hiss Collection, 1934-1979], Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society; [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissappellate.html ''United States v Alger Hiss'', 185 F. 2d 822] (Second Circuit Court of Appeals, December 7, 1950)</ref> and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] denied him ''certiorari'', as well as his repeated petitions for a writ of error ''coram nobis'' (orchestrated by long-time Communist Party member<ref>Rabinowitz claimed to have joined the Party in 1942, adding "There was no formal act marking the end of the relationship.... though I continued to meet with party members to discuss both political and legal matters for many years thereafter." Victor Rabinowitz, ''Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir'' (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996) ISBN 025202253X, pp. 73, 87. Rabinowitz' law partner (representing Cuba's Communist Castro regime) was Leonard Boudin, father of convicted Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin, whose son was adopted and raised by William Ayers, political booster of Barack Obama.</ref> Victor Rabinowitz).<ref>Eric Breindel, "[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+faithful+traitor:+Alger+Hiss%27s+refusal+to+recant+helped+create...-a019100539 The faithful traitor: Alger Hiss's refusal to recant helped create the myth of his innocence]," ''National Review'', February 10, 1997</ref> Hiss served 44 months of his five-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Prison.
Hiss appealed, but in December 1950 his conviction was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals<ref>[http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms002504.html Alger Hiss Collection, 1934-1979], Library of Maryland History, Maryland Historical Society; [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissappellate.html ''United States v Alger Hiss'', 185 F. 2d 822] (Second Circuit Court of Appeals, December 7, 1950)</ref> and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] denied him ''certiorari'', as well as his repeated petitions for a writ of error ''coram nobis'' (orchestrated by long-time Communist Party member<ref>Rabinowitz claimed to have joined the Party in 1942, adding "There was no formal act marking the end of the relationship.... though I continued to meet with party members to discuss both political and legal matters for many years thereafter." (Victor Rabinowitz, ''Unrepentant Leftist: A Lawyer's Memoir'' [Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996] ISBN 025202253X, pp. 73, 87). Rabinowitz' law partner (representing Cuba's Communist Castro regime) was Leonard Boudin, father of convicted Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin (Michael Law, [http://lawvibe.com/leftist-lawyer-victor-rabinowitz-passes-away-at-96/ Leftist Lawyer Victor Rabinowitz Passes Away at 96], Law Vibe: International Law News, November 21, 2007), whose son was adopted and raised by William Ayers (Jodi Wilgoren, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/09/us/from-a-radical-background-a-rhodes-scholar-emerges.html?pagewanted=all From a Radical Background, A Rhodes Scholar Emerges]," ''The New York Times'', December 9, 2002) political booster of Barack Obama (Scott Shane, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html?pagewanted=all Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths]," ''The New York Times'', October 3, 2008).</ref> Victor Rabinowitz).<ref>Eric Breindel, "[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+faithful+traitor:+Alger+Hiss%27s+refusal+to+recant+helped+create...-a019100539 The faithful traitor: Alger Hiss's refusal to recant helped create the myth of his innocence]," ''National Review'', February 10, 1997</ref> Hiss served 44 months of his five-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Prison.</ref>
In prison, Hiss' best fiends were the Mafia gangsters,<ref>Geoffrey C. Ward, “[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/7/1988_7_18.shtml Unregretfully, Alger Hiss,” ''American Heritage Magazine]'', Vol. 39, Issue 7 (November 1988)</ref> whom he later compared to prisoners of war in terms of solidarity, hierarchy and discipline.<ref>Alger Hiss, ''Recollections of a Life'' (Arcade, 1989) ISBN 1559700246, p. 168</ref> He called them “the most stable group in any prison”<ref> Brock Brower, “[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/brower.html The Problems of Alger Hiss],” ''Esquire'', December 1960</ref> and “the healthiest inmates of the prison” because they “had absolutely no sense of guilt.”<ref>Hiss to C. Vann Woodward, May 2, 1959, quoted in Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Random House, 1997 ed.), p. 581; G. Edward White, ''Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2005) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 87-88. Cf. Arianna Huffington, “[http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/printer_friendly.php?id=684 Alger Hiss and O.J. Simpson],” Arianna Online, November 21, 1996</ref> Hiss admitted that he, too, never felt guilt about anything he had ever done—as one Hiss biographer comments, “an incredible statement from anyone.”<ref>Ron Capshaw, “[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E9146EC9-A031-4F77-9691-F4C7F1ACA9F4 Alger Hiss: The Left's Religious Icon],” FrontPageMagazine.com, May 4, 2007</ref>
In prison, Hiss' best fiends were the Mafia gangsters,<ref>Geoffrey C. Ward, “[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/7/1988_7_18.shtml Unregretfully, Alger Hiss,” ''American Heritage Magazine]'', Vol. 39, Issue 7 (November 1988)</ref> whom he later compared to prisoners of war in terms of solidarity, hierarchy and discipline.<ref>Alger Hiss, ''Recollections of a Life'' (Arcade, 1989) ISBN 1559700246, p. 168</ref> He called them “the most stable group in any prison”<ref> Brock Brower, “[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/brower.html The Problems of Alger Hiss],” ''Esquire'', December 1960</ref> and “the healthiest inmates of the prison” because they “had absolutely no sense of guilt.”<ref>Hiss to C. Vann Woodward, May 2, 1959, quoted in Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Random House, 1997 ed.), p. 581; G. Edward White, ''Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2005) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 87-88. Cf. Arianna Huffington, “[http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/printer_friendly.php?id=684 Alger Hiss and O.J. Simpson],” Arianna Online, November 21, 1996</ref> Hiss admitted that he, too, never felt guilt about anything he had ever done—as one Hiss biographer comments, “an incredible statement from anyone.”<ref>Ron Capshaw, “[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E9146EC9-A031-4F77-9691-F4C7F1ACA9F4 Alger Hiss: The Left's Religious Icon],” FrontPageMagazine.com, May 4, 2007</ref>