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As it turned out, Jackson, Frank and Pressman were indeed fired—but [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html Hiss was not]. "Alger must have known at least a week before the purge that it was coming," said Jackson. "He undoubtedly told Pressman, and Lee told him what to do in order to remain in the Department as his pipeline."<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 Seeds of Treason]'' (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950) ASIN B0007DS43A, p. 60</ref>
As it turned out, Jackson, Frank and Pressman were indeed fired—but [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/hisschronology.html Hiss was not]. "Alger must have known at least a week before the purge that it was coming," said Jackson. "He undoubtedly told Pressman, and Lee told him what to do in order to remain in the Department as his pipeline."<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 Seeds of Treason]'' (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950) ASIN B0007DS43A, p. 60</ref>
Frank, believing Hiss to be closely linked to a coterie of Communist lawyers at the agency, would later refuse to appear as a character witness for him.<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YRyoAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 43</ref> According to Lasky and de Toledano: "When Hiss' lawyers approached a well-known jurist to ask him if he would appear as a character witness [for Hiss]...he said tartly: "I have no way of knowing whether or not Mr. Hiss was ever a Communist. But as to his character—Mr. Hiss has no character."<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 Seeds of Treason]'' (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950) ASIN B0007DS43A, p. 60</ref>
Frank, believing Hiss to be closely linked to a coterie of Communist lawyers at the agency, would later refuse to appear as a character witness for him.<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YRyoAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 43</ref> According to Ralph de Toledano (who covered the Hiss trials for ''Newsweek'') and Victor Lasky (who covered the trials for the ''New York World-Telegram''): "When Hiss' lawyers approached a well-known jurist to ask him if he would appear as a character witness [for Hiss]...he said tartly: "I have no way of knowing whether or not Mr. Hiss was ever a Communist. But as to his character—Mr. Hiss has no character."<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 Seeds of Treason]'' (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1950) ASIN B0007DS43A, p. 60</ref>
[[Henry Collins|Collins]] would [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-25testimony.html refuse to testify] on grounds of potential [[self-incrimination]], but another AAA official, [[Nathaniel Weyl]], would later testify that he attended [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/guttenplan/5 Communist cell meetings with Hiss]<ref>
[[Henry Collins|Collins]] would [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/8-25testimony.html refuse to testify] on grounds of potential [[self-incrimination]], but another AAA official, [[Nathaniel Weyl]], would later testify that he attended [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/guttenplan/5 Communist cell meetings with Hiss]<ref>