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==Death==

==Death==

In October 1996, the [[CIA]] and [[NSA]] released the [[Venona project|Venona]] decrypts, including the "Ales" transmission of March 30, 1945.<ref>John Ehrman, "[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter_spring01/article01.pdf A Half-Century of Controversy: The Alger Hiss Case]," ''Studies in Intelligence'' (Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency), Winter-Spring 2001, No. 10, pp. 9-10</ref> The following month, on November 15, 1996, Alger Hiss died. According to [http://english.princeton.edu/component/option,com_faculty/Itemid,99999999/facultyid,11/func,fullview/lang,en/ professor emeritus John V. Fleming of Princeton], "Hiss [http://gladlylernegladlyteche.blogspot.com/2009/07/tragic-to-be-blunt.html continued to lie] until [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html his dying day]." By then, "just about everyone conceded that he was guilty," reported the [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/salo-j29.shtml left-liberal] Salon.com, "that the brilliant, suave, well-educated, well-connected lawyer-diplomat had indeed been [http://www.salon.com/media/media961119.html a Communist and a spy] for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and '40s." [http://www.h-net.org/people/editors/show.cgi?ID=124585 Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes] and [http://polisci.emory.edu/faculty%20pages/klehr.htm Emory University professor Harvey Klehr] note, "Given the fervour exhibited by his loyalists, it is unlikely that anything will convince [[#refTLS09|the remaining diehards]]": 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, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sVJYAAAAMAAJ Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century]'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1987) ISBN 0060156325, p. 291; cf. 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-of-potomac/index.aspx 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." ([[#refSchecter02|Schecter 2002]]: 170) A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref>

In October 1996, the [[CIA]] and [[NSA]] released the [[Venona project|Venona]] decrypts, including the "Ales" transmission of March 30, 1945.<ref>John Ehrman, "[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter_spring01/article01.pdf A Half-Century of Controversy: The Alger Hiss Case]," ''Studies in Intelligence'' (Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency), Winter-Spring 2001, No. 10, pp. 9-10</ref> The following month, on November 15, 1996, [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html Alger Hiss died]. According to [http://english.princeton.edu/component/option,com_faculty/Itemid,99999999/facultyid,11/func,fullview/lang,en/ professor emeritus John V. Fleming of Princeton], "Hiss [http://gladlylernegladlyteche.blogspot.com/2009/07/tragic-to-be-blunt.html continued to lie] until his dying day." By then, "just about everyone conceded that he was guilty," reported the [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/jun2001/salo-j29.shtml left-liberal] Salon.com, "that the brilliant, suave, well-educated, well-connected lawyer-diplomat had indeed been [http://www.salon.com/media/media961119.html a Communist and a spy] for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and '40s." [http://www.h-net.org/people/editors/show.cgi?ID=124585 Library of Congress Cold War historian John Earl Haynes] and [http://polisci.emory.edu/faculty%20pages/klehr.htm Emory University professor Harvey Klehr] note, "Given the fervour exhibited by his loyalists, it is unlikely that anything will convince [[#refTLS09|the remaining diehards]]": 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, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=sVJYAAAAMAAJ Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century]'' (New York: Harper & Row, 1987) ISBN 0060156325, p. 291; cf. 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-of-potomac/index.aspx 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." ([[#refSchecter02|Schecter 2002]]: 170) A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession. [[#refWhite04|White 2004]]: 208</ref>

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

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