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===The Baltimore Documents===

===The Baltimore Documents===

In a pre-trial "discovery" deposition for the suit, Hiss's attorney William L. Marbury asked Chambers if he had "any correspondence, either typewritten or in handwriting" from Hiss&mdash;"one of the most disastrous questions ever asked at a deposition."<ref>[[#refBerresford92|Berresford 1992]]: 98</ref> Marbury "never expected ([[#refLindPump|nor would he have asked]] for, had he known) the response that 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 [[#refTime12.20.48|in a dumbwaiter shaft]]. Three days later, Chambers turned over to Hiss's attorneys 65 pages of typewritten documents and [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=source%3Alife%20%22pumpkin%20papers%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi handwritten memoranda], some so sensitive that for security reasons they could [[#refHissAppellate|not safely be made public]], though already a decade old. Chambers' attorney introduced the documents:

In a pre-trial "discovery" deposition for the suit, Hiss's attorney William L. Marbury asked Chambers if he had "any correspondence, either typewritten or in handwriting" from Hiss&mdash;"one of the most disastrous questions ever asked at a deposition."<ref>[[#refBerresford92|Berresford 1992]]: 98</ref> Marbury "never expected ([[#refLindPump|nor would he have asked]] for, had he known) the response that 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 [[#refTime12.20.48|in a dumbwaiter shaft]]. Three days later, Chambers turned over to Hiss's attorneys 65 pages of typewritten documents and [http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=source%3Alife%20%22pumpkin%20papers%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi handwritten memoranda], some so sensitive that for security reasons they could [[#refHissAppellate|not safely be made public]], though already a decade old. Chambers' attorney introduced the documents:

{{cquote|Let's identify these papers by reading the first and last words of each one into the record... 'Tokyo... February 12, KENNEDY.' 'Paris... February 15, 1938... Secretary of State...  Signed BULLITT.' 'Vienna... February 13, 1938... Secretary of State... Signed WILEY.' 'Rome... March 29... The Embassy learns... Signed PHILLIPS.' 'Warsaw... March 29... I learn following in strictest confidence... Signed BIDDLE.'<ref>[[#refTL50|de Toledano, Lasky 1950]]: 214-215</ref>}}

{{cquote|Let's identify these papers by reading the first and last words of each one into the record... 'Tokyo... February 12, KENNEDY.' 'Paris... February 15, 1938... Secretary of State...  Signed BULLITT.' 'Vienna... February 13, 1938... Secretary of State... Signed WILEY.' 'Rome... March 29... The Embassy learns... Signed PHILLIPS.' 'Warsaw... March 29... I learn following in strictest [[confidence]]... Signed BIDDLE.'<ref>[[#refTL50|de Toledano, Lasky 1950]]: 214-215</ref>}}

Hiss conceded that the typed pages appeared to be copies of authentic State Department documents, and admitted that all but one 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) The FBI laboratory determined that the remaining [http://www.life.com/image/72404528 handwritten memorandum] supplied by Chambers was [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Memorandum_identifying_Harry_Dexter_White_as_agent_Jurist in the handwriting] of [[Harry Dexter White]], just as [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19491129&id=CocNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KE4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3777,2653357 Chambers testified].</ref> Among the documents confirmed by Hiss's own documents experts to be in his handwriting (contradicting [[#refNYRB2|his denial]]) was a [http://www.documentstalk.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/bdocs_hiss_note_to_martin.jpg summary of a telegram]<ref>This image is hosted on DocumentsTalk.com, a Web site "underwritten, [http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/06/in-denial-round-11.html perhaps entirely], by THE NATION INSTITUTE," which is [[#refDTN:OSI|in turn funded]] by [[George Soros]].</ref> that Chambers had [[#refNYRB|quoted almost verbatim]] in an article he gave Herbert Solow in 1938.

Hiss conceded that the typed pages appeared to be copies of authentic State Department documents, and admitted that all but one 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) The FBI laboratory determined that the remaining [http://www.life.com/image/72404528 handwritten memorandum] supplied by Chambers was [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/FBI_Memorandum_identifying_Harry_Dexter_White_as_agent_Jurist in the handwriting] of [[Harry Dexter White]], just as [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19491129&id=CocNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KE4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3777,2653357 Chambers testified].</ref> Among the documents confirmed by Hiss's own documents experts to be in his handwriting (contradicting [[#refNYRB2|his denial]]) was a [http://www.documentstalk.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/bdocs_hiss_note_to_martin.jpg summary of a telegram]<ref>This image is hosted on DocumentsTalk.com, a Web site "underwritten, [http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2009/06/in-denial-round-11.html perhaps entirely], by THE NATION INSTITUTE," which is [[#refDTN:OSI|in turn funded]] by [[George Soros]].</ref> that Chambers had [[#refNYRB|quoted almost verbatim]] in an article he gave Herbert Solow in 1938.