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At the conference, "Vadim" ([[Anatoly Gorsky]],<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 046500312, p. 90</ref> then chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S.) wanted to meet with "Ales," according to [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page63.html a cable] Vassiliev discovered in the Soviet archives. His notes indicate that "Ales" had worked with "Ruble" ([http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Harold Glasser]) as a member of a group run by "Karl" ([http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html#_ftnref5 Whittaker Chambers]). The cable adds that "'Ruble' gives 'Ales' an exceptionally good political reference as a member of the [[Communist Party|Comparty]].... completely aware that he is Communist in an illegal position, with all the ensuing consequences," and recommends (according to the notes) that he be approached at the UN conference by "Sergei" (NKVD agent [[Vladimir Pravdin]],<ref>Robert L. Benson, [http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf The Venona Story] (Ft. George G. Meade. MD: National Security Agency Center for Cryptologic History), p. 31 (PDF p. 34)</ref> then under cover as head of the Soviet news agency TASS)<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 046500312, p. 124; "Pravdin" was actually [http://www.powells.com/review/2004_02_12.html Rolland Abbiat, murderer of Ignace Reiss].</ref> or Gorsky, "alluding either to the password, or to '[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]', or simply to [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page70.html 'Ales's' progressive attitudes]."

At the conference, "Vadim" ([[Anatoly Gorsky]],<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 046500312, p. 90</ref> then chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S.) wanted to meet with "Ales," according to [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page63.html a cable] Vassiliev discovered in the Soviet archives. His notes indicate that "Ales" had worked with "Ruble" ([http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-hoac&month=0503&week=b&msg=ycrsVT7M1e2L9EECiLFskg&user=&pw= Harold Glasser]) as a member of a group run by "Karl" ([http://hnn.us/articles/11581.html#_ftnref5 Whittaker Chambers]). The cable adds that "'Ruble' gives 'Ales' an exceptionally good political reference as a member of the [[Communist Party|Comparty]].... completely aware that he is Communist in an illegal position, with all the ensuing consequences," and recommends (according to the notes) that he be approached at the UN conference by "Sergei" (NKVD agent [[Vladimir Pravdin]],<ref>Robert L. Benson, [http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf The Venona Story] (Ft. George G. Meade. MD: National Security Agency Center for Cryptologic History), p. 31 (PDF p. 34)</ref> then under cover as head of the Soviet news agency TASS)<ref>Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=9TWUAQ7Xof8C The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB]'' (New York: Basic Books, 2000), ISBN 046500312, p. 124; "Pravdin" was actually [http://www.powells.com/review/2004_02_12.html Rolland Abbiat, murderer of Ignace Reiss].</ref> or Gorsky, "alluding either to the password, or to '[[Harold Glasser|Ruble]]', or simply to [http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/page70.html 'Ales's' progressive attitudes]."

At the conference, Stettinius was named [[U.S.]] Ambassador to the [[United Nations]]. His successor as [[Secretary of State]], [http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/byrnes-james.htm James F. Byrnes], was immediately "faced with the problem of [http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/johnson10june85.pdf what he would do with Alger]," who was already under FBI suspicion. Byrnes said that despite his categorical instructions not to recommend any U.S. citizen for posts in the UN Secretariat, Hiss recommended several dozen federal employees&mdash;[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238/pg_3/ members of Communist cells] in the government, whose jobs were at risk under a tightened security program.<ref>Subcommittee on Internal Security, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate, [http://ia360607.us.archive.org/1/items/interlockingsubv16unit/interlockingsubv16unit_bw.pdf Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments], Vol. 16 (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1953), p. 1072</ref> Communist<ref>Victor Navasky, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wg0ypcai-osC Naming Names]'' (New York: Macmillan, 2003) ISBN 0809001837, p. 367</ref> screen writer Dalton Trumbo boasted that he was Ambassador Stettinius' ghost-writer at the conference.<ref>"To Elsie McKeough," Helen Manfull, Ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (New York: M. Evans and Company, 1970), p. 37</ref> Press accounts attributed the hiring of Trumbo, who would become infamous as one of the "Hollywood Ten," to Hiss.<ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, ''[http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de19538c4c7b1cf9e825 Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy]'', (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1950), ASIN B0007DS43A p. 110; Westbrook Pegler, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19500703&id=SrILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=elUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1706,274693 New U.N. Building is Monument to Men Who Betrayed U.S.]," ''The Evening Independent'', July 3, 1950</ref>

At the conference, Stettinius resigned to become [[U.S.]] Ambassador to the [[United Nations]]. His successor as [[Secretary of State]], [http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/byrnes-james.htm James F. Byrnes], was immediately "faced with the problem of [http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/unationsday/docs/johnson10june85.pdf what he would do with Alger]," who was already under FBI suspicion. Byrnes had been "pushed out" of planning the UN conference, according to Stettinius, after [[FDR]] had signalled (three days before his death) "that Alger Hiss and I should handle this entirely ourselves."<ref>Edward R. Stettinius Jr., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=v9N3AAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 The Diaries of Edward R Stettinius Jr , 1943-1946]'', edited by Thomas M. Campbell and George C. Herring (New York: New Viewpoints, 1975), ISBN 0531055701, p. 249</ref> Byrnes said that despite his categorical instructions not to recommend any U.S. citizen for posts in the UN Secretariat, Hiss recommended several dozen federal employees&mdash;[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n3_v13/ai_19048238/pg_3/ members of Communist cells] in the government, whose jobs were at risk under a tightened security program.<ref>Subcommittee on Internal Security, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. Senate, [http://ia360607.us.archive.org/1/items/interlockingsubv16unit/interlockingsubv16unit_bw.pdf Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments], Vol. 16 (Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1953), p. 1072</ref> Communist<ref>Victor Navasky, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=wg0ypcai-osC Naming Names]'' (New York: Macmillan, 2003) ISBN 0809001837, p. 367</ref> screen writer Dalton Trumbo boasted that he was Ambassador Stettinius' ghost-writer at the conference.<ref>"To Elsie McKeough," Helen Manfull, Ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (New York: M. Evans and Company, 1970), p. 37</ref> Press accounts attributed the hiring of Trumbo, who would become infamous as one of the "Hollywood Ten," to Hiss.<ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, ''[http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de19538c4c7b1cf9e825 Seeds of Treason: The True Story of the Hiss-Chambers Tragedy]'', (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1950), ASIN B0007DS43A p. 110; Westbrook Pegler, "[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19500703&id=SrILAAAAIBAJ&sjid=elUDAAAAIBAJ&pg=1706,274693 New U.N. Building is Monument to Men Who Betrayed U.S.]," ''The Evening Independent'', July 3, 1950</ref>

[[Image:Hisscharter.jpg|thumb|300 px|left|Hiss arrives in Washington from San Francisco with UN Charter in fireproof safe with parachute. ''Image courtesy United States Air Force'']]In April 1945, [[Harold Glasser|Glasser]] slipped a warning to [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S., that the FBI had notified Stettinius that Bureau surveillance had followed a bundle of State Department documents from Washington to New York, where they were photographed, then returned within 24 hours to Washington. Only three people had access to these documents, one of whom was "Ales." Stettinius told "Ales": "I hope it is not you."<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jbMBAAAACAAJ The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era]'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, pp. 267-268</ref>

[[Image:Hisscharter.jpg|thumb|300 px|left|Hiss arrives in Washington from San Francisco with UN Charter in fireproof safe with parachute. ''Image courtesy United States Air Force'']]In April 1945, [[Harold Glasser|Glasser]] slipped a warning to [[Anatoly Gorsky]], chief of Soviet intelligence in the U.S., that the FBI had notified Stettinius that Bureau surveillance had followed a bundle of State Department documents from Washington to New York, where they were photographed, then returned within 24 hours to Washington. Only three people had access to these documents, one of whom was "Ales." Stettinius told "Ales": "I hope it is not you."<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jbMBAAAACAAJ The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—the Stalin Era]'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, pp. 267-268</ref>