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The prosecution called [[Hede Massing]], but at the first trial Judge Samuel H. Kaufman ruled that her testimony was irrelevant. At the second trial, Judge Henry W. Goddard allowed her to testify about [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,855041,00.html Hiss' 1935 attempt] to get [[Noel Field]] to transfer from her [[OGPU]] group to Hiss' [[GRU]] group. To avoid testifying, Field [http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/15/opinion/hiss-case-smoking-gun.html fled to the East bloc]. Writing in Balliol College's ''Oxonion Review'', professed "liberal" Daniel Hemel sums up:

The prosecution called [[Hede Massing]], but at the first trial Judge Samuel H. Kaufman ruled that her testimony was irrelevant. At the second trial, Judge Henry W. Goddard allowed her to testify about [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,855041,00.html Hiss' 1935 attempt] to get [[Noel Field]] to transfer from her [[OGPU]] group to Hiss' [[GRU]] group. To avoid testifying, Field [http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/15/opinion/hiss-case-smoking-gun.html fled to the East bloc]. Writing in Balliol College's ''Oxonion Review'', professed "liberal" Daniel Hemel sums up:

{{cquote|[W]hat is striking about the Hiss trial is not that the prosecution engaged in shameless red-baiting (it did not), but that Hiss’s defense team engaged in shameless gay-baiting. Unable to discredit Chambers based on the facts of the case, Hiss’s lawyers (with the defendant’s encouragement) sought to smear Chambers based on the fact that he was bisexual. Fortunately, the jurors in the Hiss case were not as horrifyingly homophobic as Hiss and his attorneys. In retrospect, if either side of the trial engaged in egregious behaviour, it was the defense7mdash;[http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/who-killed-alger-hiss/ not the prosecution].}}

{{cquote|[W]hat is striking about the Hiss trial is not that the prosecution engaged in shameless red-baiting (it did not), but that Hiss’s defense team engaged in shameless gay-baiting. Unable to discredit Chambers based on the facts of the case, Hiss’s lawyers (with the defendant’s encouragement) sought to smear Chambers based on the fact that he was bisexual. Fortunately, the jurors in the Hiss case were not as horrifyingly homophobic as Hiss and his attorneys. In retrospect, if either side of the trial engaged in egregious behaviour, it was the defense—[http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/who-killed-alger-hiss/ not the prosecution].}}

Hiss's friend and former colleague, Charles Wyzanski, Senior District Judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston, testified in both trials in defense of Hiss. Wyzanski, who "initially had supposed [Hiss] innocent," later concluded that "[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.1/letters.html Hiss was guilty]," as did Hiss' own attorney, William L. Marbury.

Hiss's friend and former colleague, Charles Wyzanski, Senior District Judge of the U.S. District Court in Boston, testified in both trials in defense of Hiss. Wyzanski, who "initially had supposed [Hiss] innocent," later concluded that "[http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/87.1/letters.html Hiss was guilty]," as did Hiss' own attorney, William L. Marbury.