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==Death==

==Death==

Despite mountains of evidence against him that only increased as incriminatory Soviet bloc documents came to light following the collapse of Communism, Hiss continued to deny the charges to [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html his death] in 1996. It is doubtful that even a confession on his part would have made any difference to the cottage industry of professional Hiss defenders: as one [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ Hiss partisan] admitted, even if he heard that Hiss had confessed on his deathbed to being a Soviet agent, he "wouldn't believe it."<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'', (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 208</ref>

Despite mountains of evidence against him that only increased as incriminatory Soviet bloc documents came to light following the collapse of Communism, Hiss continued to deny the charges to [http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/09/reviews/hiss-obit.html his death] in 1996. It is doubtful that even a confession on his part would have made any difference to the cottage industry of professional Hiss defenders: 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, "The Strange Case of Whittaker Chambers," ''Encounter'', January 1976, p. 78. A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040621/editors2/ professional Hiss partisan] made a remarkably similar confession.<ref>G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'', (Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN 0195182553, p. 208</ref>

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

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