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Despite mountains of evidence against him that only increased as incriminatory Soviet bloc documents came to light following the collapse of Communism, Hiss continued to deny the charges to [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html his death] in 1996. It is doubtful that even a confession on his part would have made any difference to the cottage industry of professional Hiss defenders: as [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v38i5a10p.htm ex-Communist] [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf5n39n7hn&chunk.id=c01-1.7.6.4&brand=oac Sidney Hook] reported, when asked what evidence he would accept of Hiss' guilt, one of his neighbors, a professor at Columbia University, admitted, "Even if Hiss himself were to confess his guilt, I wouldn't believe it."<ref>Sidney Hook, "The Strange Case of Whittaker Chambers," ''Encounter'', January 1976, p. 78. A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'', (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 208</ref>

Despite mountains of evidence against him that only increased as incriminatory Soviet bloc documents came to light following the collapse of Communism, Hiss continued to deny the charges to [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html his death] in 1996. It is doubtful that even a confession on his part would have made any difference to the cottage industry of professional Hiss defenders: as [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v38i5a10p.htm ex-Communist] [http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf5n39n7hn&chunk.id=c01-1.7.6.4&brand=oac Sidney Hook] reported, when asked what evidence he would accept of Hiss' guilt, one of his neighbors, a professor at Columbia University, admitted, "Even if Hiss himself were to confess his guilt, I wouldn't believe it."<ref>Sidney Hook, "The Strange Case of Whittaker Chambers," ''Encounter'', January 1976, p. 78. Likewise, when the FBI was looking for old Hiss family letters to compare with the Baltimore documents and pumpkin papers, the headmistress of Washington’s [http://dcsportsfan.com/article.aspx?aid=2472 elite] [http://www.potomacschool.org/about_us/history.asp Potomac School]&mdash;who, "dressed in an upper class fashion and with mannerisms to match, seethed with venom” as she “refused to give any letters”&mdash;“said that if Alger Hiss told her himself that he was a Soviet spy she wouldn't believe it." (Jerrold and Leona Schecter, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=M2pbieYYHrYC Sacred Secrets: How Soviet Intelligence Operations Changed American History]'' [Washington: Potomac Books Inc., 2002] ISBN 1574883275, p. 170) A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'', (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 208</ref>

==See Related Article: [[Alger Hiss and the Volkogonov Affair]]==

==See Related Article: [[Alger Hiss and the Volkogonov Affair]]==