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[[Image:Hiss2.png|thumb|300px|right|Alger Hiss.<br>''Photo courtesy U.S. Bureau of Prisons'']]

[[Image:Hiss2.png|thumb|300px|right|Alger Hiss.<br>''Photo courtesy U.S. Bureau of Prisons'']]

'''Alger Hiss''' (November 11, 1904 &ndash; November 15, 1996) was a high-ranking [[U.S. State Department]] official<ref>"....Alger Hiss, a former high-ranking State Department official...." Press Release: [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2000/nr00-02.html National Archives to Make Available Alger Hiss Grand Jury Materials], United States National Archives and Records Administration, October 11, 1999</ref> and Secretary General of the founding conference of the [[United Nations]].<ref>"...served as the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in 1945." [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00190 Hiss, Alger. Prison Correspondence, 1951-1954: Finding Aid], Harvard Law School Library</ref> He was [[conviction|convicted]] of [[perjury]] in 1950, after denying involvement in [[Soviet]] [[espionage]].

'''Alger Hiss''' (November 11, 1904 &ndash; November 15, 1996) was a [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2000/nr00-02.html high-ranking] [[U.S. State Department]] official and [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~law00190 Secretary General] of the founding conference of the [[United Nations]]. He was [[conviction|convicted]] of [[perjury]] in 1950, after denying involvement in [[Soviet]] [[espionage]].

"Belief in the guilt or [[innocence]] of Alger Hiss became a defining issue in [[American]] intellectual life," wrote [[Senator]] [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] (D.-N.Y.), who was instrumental in securing the release of [[FBI]] and [[Venona project]] files on the case, which had been classified for half a century. Concluded the [[liberal]] [[Democrat]]<ref>"....Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a liberal Democrat...." Louis Uchitelle, "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E5DC103EF930A15751C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all The Rehabilitation of Morning in America]," ''The New York Times'', February 23, 1997</ref> in 1998: "Parts of the [[United States government|American government]] had [[conclusion|conclusive]] [[evidence]] of his guilt, but they never told."<ref>Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FWq-5a5tqH0C Secrecy: The American Experience]'', New Haven: Yale University Press (1998) ISBN 0300077564, p. 146</ref>

"Belief in the guilt or [[innocence]] of Alger Hiss became a defining issue in [[American]] intellectual life," wrote [[Senator]] [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] (D.-N.Y.), who was instrumental in securing the release of [[FBI]] and [[Venona project]] files on the case, which had been classified for half a century. Concluded the [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E5DC103EF930A15751C0A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all liberal Democrat] in 1998: "Parts of the [[United States government|American government]] had [[conclusion|conclusive]] [[evidence]] of his guilt, but they never told."<ref>Daniel Patrick Moynihan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FWq-5a5tqH0C Secrecy: The American Experience]'', New Haven: Yale University Press (1998) ISBN 0300077564, p. 146</ref>

==Early life==

==Early life==