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'''Alger Hiss''' (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a high-ranking<ref>"...Alger Hiss, a former [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2000/nr00-02.html high-ranking State Department official]..." </ref> [[U.S. State Department]] official and Secretary-General<ref>"The Secretary-General of the Conference was Alger Hiss... Secretary-General: Alger Hiss" [[#refUN46|UN 1946-47]]: 14, 48 (PDF 15, 49)</ref> of the founding conference of the [[United Nations]].
'''Alger Hiss''' (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was a high-ranking<ref>"...Alger Hiss, a former [http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2000/nr00-02.html high-ranking State Department official]..." </ref> [[U.S. State Department]] official and Secretary-General<ref>"The Secretary-General of the Conference was Alger Hiss... Secretary-General: Alger Hiss" [[#refUN46|UN 1946-47]]: 14, 48 (PDF 15, 49)</ref> of the founding conference of the [[United Nations]].
[[#refBogdanor08|One of America's leading diplomats, with strong ties to the Democratic Party]], Hiss—who claimed to be a "liberal"<ref>Hiss referred to " liberals like myself," writing that he had acquired a "liberal outlook" as a student, which was "strengthened and given focus at the Harvard Law School"; his work for Justice Holmes "increased my liberal convictions"; etc. Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter on the Foundations of His Liberalism], Small Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library</ref>—was [[conviction|convicted]] of [[perjury]] in 1950, after denying involvement in [[USSR|Soviet]] [[espionage]]. For decades, a great number of Americans saw Hiss as an [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Since1945/?view=usa&ci=9780195182552 innocent victim of McCarthyism]—of an [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/11.html elaborate frame-up], railroaded by [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/history.html the demagoguery] of [[Richard Nixon]] and the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]].
[[#refBogdanor08|One of America's leading diplomats, with strong ties to the Democratic Party]], Hiss—who claimed to be a "liberal"<ref>Hiss referred to " liberals like myself," writing that he had acquired a "liberal outlook" as a student, which was "strengthened and given focus at the Harvard Law School"; his work for Justice Holmes "increased my liberal convictions"; etc. Alger Hiss, [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/liberalism.html Draft of a Chapter on the Foundations of His Liberalism], Small Manuscript Collection, Special Collections, Harvard Law School Library</ref>—was [[conviction|convicted]] of [[perjury]] in 1950, after denying involvement in [[USSR|Soviet]] [[espionage]]. For decades, a great number of Americans saw Hiss as an [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Since1945/?view=usa&ci=9780195182552 innocent victim of McCarthyism]—of an [http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/spies/hiss/11.html elaborate frame-up], railroaded by [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/history.html the demagoguery] of [[Richard Nixon]] and the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]].