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==New Deal==

==New Deal==

In 1933, Frankfurter sent Hiss a telegram urging him to join President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] in the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] under Secretary [[Henry A. Wallace]] as an attorney with the new [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]], where Hiss reunited with [[Henry Collins]], [[Lee Pressman]] and [[Nathan Witt]], all of whom now joined the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] of underground Communists, a Soviet espionage group. During the early and middle thirties, Hiss was a source of agent information for another Soviet spy ring in Washington, the [[Silvermaster group]], according to a former GRU ''rezident'' in London and New York, as reported by Pavel Sudoplatov, former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR.<ref>Anatoli Sudoplatov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Leona P. Schecter and Jerrold L. Schecter, ''Special Tasks'' (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1995) ISBN 0316821152, p. 228</ref>

In 1933, Frankfurter sent Hiss a telegram urging him to join President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] under Secretary of Agriculture [[Henry A. Wallace]] as an attorney with the new [[Agricultural Adjustment Administration]]. There Hiss reunited with [[Henry Collins]], [[Lee Pressman]] and [[Nathan Witt]], all of whom now joined the [[Harold Ware|Ware group]] of underground Communists, a Soviet espionage group. During the early and middle thirties, Hiss was a source of agent information for another Soviet spy ring in Washington, the [[Silvermaster group]], according to a former GRU ''rezident'' in London and New York, as reported by Pavel Sudoplatov, former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR.<ref>Anatoli Sudoplatov, Pavel Sudoplatov, Leona P. Schecter and Jerrold L. Schecter, ''Special Tasks'' (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1995) ISBN 0316821152, p. 228</ref>

He served briefly in the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]]. In August or September of 1934, Hiss met [[Whittaker Chambers]] and started paying Communist Party dues. He began working with the [[GRU]] in 1935 and Chambers acted as courier.  GRU ''Illegal Rezident'' [[Boris Bykov]] recommended espionage procedures, followed by Hiss, that included bringing files home nightly and retyping them.  [[Harold Glasser]] was transfered to GRU  in 1937.  Hiss's membership was later corroborated by [[Nathaniel Weyl]] who also worked in the AAA and was a member of the Ware group in testimony before the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee|McCarran Committee]]. <ref>[[Wikisource:Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus| Nathaniel Weyl testimony, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], 23 February 1953. </ref>

He served briefly in the [[United States Department of Justice|Justice Department]]. In August or September of 1934, Hiss met [[Whittaker Chambers]] and started paying Communist Party dues. He began working with the [[GRU]] in 1935 and Chambers acted as courier.  GRU ''Illegal Rezident'' [[Boris Bykov]] recommended espionage procedures, followed by Hiss, that included bringing files home nightly and retyping them.  [[Harold Glasser]] was transfered to GRU  in 1937.  Hiss's membership was later corroborated by [[Nathaniel Weyl]] who also worked in the AAA and was a member of the Ware group in testimony before the [[Senate Internal Security Subcommittee|McCarran Committee]]. <ref>[[Wikisource:Nathaniel Weyl testimony corroborating Alger Hiss as member of CPUSA secret apparatus| Nathaniel Weyl testimony, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee]], 23 February 1953. </ref>