Talk:Alger Hiss

This article could be improved by the addition of additional images.

For example, the discussion of Stalin's Terror Famine and the AAA could use images such as "Auch diese Leiche erregt noch Aufsehen" (http://www.garethjones.org/soviet_articles/thomas_walker/1935/muss_russland_hungern_12_small.jpg) from Ewald Ammende's Muss Russland Hungern? (the 70-year U.S. copyright term on this image expired in 2005) and "Soup Kitchen during the Depression" (http://media.nara.gov/media/images/27/7/27-0637t.gif) from the National Archives and Records Administration's Franklin D. Roosevelt Library public domain images collection (ARC Identifier: 196174).

Likewise, the discussion of Stalin's Great Terror could use an image such as the photograph of Vyshinskii, chief prosecutor of the Moscow purge trials, at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Radek's_action.jpg and the discussion of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact could use an image such as the photograph of Molotov, chief Soviet signatory of the pact, at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Molotov.bra.jpg (Both of these images should be public domain in the Russian Federation under Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Book IV, Implementation Act, Law No. 231-FZ, Article 6, Paragraph 1, December 18, 2006.)

The discussion of the dissemination of FBI memos and reports on Alger Hiss to the White House, Attorney General and State Department beginning in 1942 could use an image similar to the one at http://www.conservapedia.com/Image:FBI-Chart-Web.png -- except dealing with Hiss exclusively. I have obtained and scanned such a chart on Hiss from the FBI's "J. Edgar Hoover, Official and Confidential" file, from the FBI's FOIA reading room in the J. Edgar Hoover Building at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. The chart is public domain under U.S. Code, TITLE 17, CHAPTER 1, § 105.

The discussion of Hiss' relationship with Stettinius could use an image such as "Stettinius and Hiss" (http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/digital_detail.jsp?&pg=4&rn=4&tn=197275&st=b&rp=details&nh=6) (ARC Identifier: 197289) and the section on Yalta, discussing Hiss' contacts with Molotov and Vishinskii, could use an image such as ARC Identifier: 197291 (http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/digital_detail.jsp?&pg=1&rn=5&tn=197277&st=b&rp=summary&nh=6&si=0), which features Hiss with both Molotov and Vishinskii, as well as Stettinius. Both of these last images are available at the National Archives and Records Administration's Franklin D. Roosevelt Library public domain images collection.

As for the discussion of the Gorsky memo, Professor Haynes has given me permission to reproduce that portion of page one of Vassiliev's notes (http://www.johnearlhaynes.org/v1.tif) featuring the name "Alger Hiss" <<Алджер Хисс>> in Vassiliev's handwriting, but I am awaiting clearance on this from Vassiliev.

I don't have administrator access, so I can't upload images. If any administrator would like to upload any of these images, please let me know, or tell me how to upload images, and I will be glad to do it. Thanks. FOIA 17:21, 2 July 2008 (EDT)

FOIA

I have to say, I am amazed. I never realized you had been into this article last year, apparently, when I was on sabbatical. Do you still need any of the images you listed above? --₮K_/Admin^/Talk 00:17, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

I missed this too. FOIA seems to be on here quite sporadically, maybe we can upload them anyway - we can always delete the ones he does not use. --KotomiT^nandeyanen? 04:06, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

Photos

It seems we have only stumbled upon your request now - sorry! Please remember to use Conservapedia:Image upload requests for any future requests.

• Radek's action - here
• Molotov - here
• Soupkitchen - here
• Stettinius and Hiss - here
• Molotov and Vishinskii - here

I am a little wary of using images from the National Archives a) because that site is quite intimidating if you are not used to it. Also I see the buttons "Obtain copies" and "Order online" which leads m to think they might not be happy with our lifting pictures from them. But somebody more familiar with the NA can clarify that. (Same for the Gareth Jones and the johnearlhaynes.or sites.) --KotomiT^nandeyanen? 06:34, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

the National Archives does not own any copyrights and we do not need any permission to use their materials. (US Government documents cannot be copyrighted).RJJensen 10:02, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

Ah, thank you for that, I will add the other ones now. --KotomiT^nandeyanen? 10:34, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

Edits by Wahida

I am glad to see someone else editing this page now. I do have one question: Do you think "when the boy was just two years old" is encyclopedic in style? Perhaps "when the boy was two years old" might have a less emotive or editorial-essay tone? FOIA 22:33, 18 May 2009 (EDT)

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so I removed the quote template. How can we restore this? I must be tired. FOIA 23:59, 13 June 2009 (EDT)

The problem is somewhere with the last external link, cause I can get it all up to there:

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[I]n the fall of 1944 there was a difference of opinion in the State Department. I felt that the Russians were not going to be sympathetic and cooperative....[I]ntelligence reports which were in my charge indicated a very aggressive policy, not at all in line with the kind of cooperation everyone was hoping for. I was pressing for a pretty clean-cut showdown then when our position was strongest. The opposite group in the State Department was largely ... Mr. Acheson's group ... with Mr. Hiss as his principal assistant in the matter.... [A]t that time Mr. Hiss did take what we would call today the pro-Russian point of view.... I got trimmed in that fight, and, as a result, went to Brazil, and that ended my diplomatic career.

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We need help. Rob Smith 16:25, 17 June 2009 (EDT)

Hiss & early UN staff

I found a source for an old Wikipedia dispute, the allegation Hiss was responsible for the employment of 494 employees on the UN staff [1] Can we use this either here or in the UN article? Rob Smith 16:07, 23 June 2009 (EDT)

Order of the Red Star

Found an img of Hiss's honors. [2] Have you seen this new site? See this subsection for example A 2009 Chambers Primer and first-ever glimpse into the documentary records from Chambers’s Communist Party past Rob Smith 21:54, 12 July 2009 (EDT)