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Donald Hiss was the younger brother of Alger Hiss. From 1929 to 1930 he was secretary and law clerk to a Supreme Court justice. From 1930 until 1933 he engaged in the private practice of law. From 1933 to 1935 he was employed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In 1934 he was also attached to a special Senate committee investigating the munitions industry.
In 1935 he was employed as a special attorney by the Department of Justice. On September 18, 1936, he was appointed an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State and worked in the State Department throughout World War II unitl 1945.
Donald, like his brother Alger, was a secret member of the Ware group, a group of United States government employees who illegally belonged to the Communist Party of America which advocated the violent overthrow of the United States government.
References
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press