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==Hiss' suit against Chambers==

==Hiss' suit against Chambers==

===The Baltimore Documents===

===The Baltimore Documents===

In a pre-trial "discovery" deposition for the suit, Hiss's attorney William L. Marbury told Chambers to produce "any correspondence, either typewritten or in handwriting" from Hiss&mdash;"one of the most disastrous questions ever asked [http://www.johnwberresford.com/Articles_Other/Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss.doc at a deposition]." Chambers retrieved [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/envelope.jpg the packet] he had given his wife's nephew in 1938, which had been hidden [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,799517,00.html in a dumbwaiter shaft]. Three days later, Chambers turned over to Hiss' attorneys 43 typewritten documents (65 pages) and five [http://www.life.com/image/72404528 handwritten memoranda], some so sensitive that for security reasons they could [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissappellate.html not safely be made public], though already a decade old. Hiss conceded that the typed pages appeared to be copies of authentic State Department documents, and admitted that four of the handwritten memos appeared to be in his handwriting.<ref>FBI "By Special Messenger": SAC, Washington Field to Hoover, December 1, 1948 (FBI file: Hiss Chambers, Vol. 1)</ref>

In a pre-trial "discovery" deposition for the suit, Hiss's attorney William L. Marbury told Chambers to produce "any correspondence, either typewritten or in handwriting" from Hiss&mdash;"one of the most disastrous questions ever asked [http://www.johnwberresford.com/Articles_Other/Whittaker_Chambers_and_Alger_Hiss.doc at a deposition]." Marbury "never expected (nor would he have asked for, had he known) the response that [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/pumpkinp.html he received]." Chambers retrieved [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/envelope.jpg the packet] he had given his wife's nephew in 1938, which had been hidden [http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,799517,00.html in a dumbwaiter shaft]. Three days later, Chambers turned over to Hiss' attorneys 43 typewritten documents (65 pages) and five [http://www.life.com/image/72404528 handwritten memoranda], some so sensitive that for security reasons they could [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hissappellate.html not safely be made public], though already a decade old. Hiss conceded that the typed pages appeared to be copies of authentic State Department documents, and admitted that four of the handwritten memos appeared to be in his handwriting.<ref>FBI "By Special Messenger": SAC, Washington Field to Hoover, December 1, 1948 (FBI file: Hiss Chambers, Vol. 1)</ref>

Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas J. Donegan told the FBI that Assistant Attorney General Alexander M. Campbell, head of the Criminal Division at Truman Justice, “now wants to institute perjury charges against Chambers” for not revealing the documents before this. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's handwritten addendum comments, “I wonder why they don't move against Hiss also.”<ref>FBI memorandum: Ladd to Hoover, November 23, 1948 (FBI file: Hiss-Chambers, Vol. 1)</ref> The Truman administration's determination to indict Chambers rather than Hiss was unusual, as two leading scholars of the case note:

Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas J. Donegan told the FBI that Assistant Attorney General Alexander M. Campbell, head of the Criminal Division at Truman Justice, “now wants to institute perjury charges against Chambers” for not revealing the documents before this. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's handwritten addendum comments, “I wonder why they don't move against Hiss also.”<ref>FBI memorandum: Ladd to Hoover, November 23, 1948 (FBI file: Hiss-Chambers, Vol. 1)</ref> The Truman administration's determination to indict Chambers rather than Hiss was unusual, as two leading scholars of the case note: