| | In 1936, Hiss and his brother [[Donald Hiss|Donald]] began working in the US State Department, where he served as assistant to [[Francis B. Sayre]], a son-in-law of [[Woodrow Wilson]], and later as an assistant to Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]]. Hiss became special assistant to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, then in 1944 special assitant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (OSPA), a policy-making office that concentrated on postwar planning for international organization and later became its director. As such he was executive secretary at the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]], which drafted plans for the organization that would become the [[United Nations]]. | | In 1936, Hiss and his brother [[Donald Hiss|Donald]] began working in the US State Department, where he served as assistant to [[Francis B. Sayre]], a son-in-law of [[Woodrow Wilson]], and later as an assistant to Secretary of State [[Edward Stettinius, Jr.]]. Hiss became special assistant to the Director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, then in 1944 special assitant to the Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs (OSPA), a policy-making office that concentrated on postwar planning for international organization and later became its director. As such he was executive secretary at the [[Dumbarton Oaks Conference]], which drafted plans for the organization that would become the [[United Nations]]. |
| − | In 1945 he went with the president to the meeting of Roosevelt, [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], and [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] in [[Yalta conference|Yalta]], which precipitated the [[Western betrayal]] of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union and its client states behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. At Yalta, Hiss negotiated the final agreement to give the Soviet Union three seats in the United Nations. <ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de19538c4c7b1cf9e825 ''Seeds of Treason''], of Treason, (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1950), pgs. 107-109.</ref> After the Yalta conference Hiss traveled on to Moscow with Secretary of State Stettinius, [[Venona project]] transcript #1822 dated 30 March 1945 reads in part | + | In 1945 he went with the president to the meeting of Roosevelt, [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], and [[Winston Churchill|Churchill]] in [[Yalta conference|Yalta]], which precipitated the [[Western betrayal]] of Eastern Europe to the Soviet Union and its client states behind the [[Iron Curtain]]. At Yalta, Hiss negotiated the final agreement to give the Soviet Union three seats in the United Nations. <ref>Ralph de Toledano and Victor Lasky, [http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=/PDFsml_AD/Seeds_Of_Treason-Ralph_de_Toledano_and_Victor_Lasky-1950-278pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=343&PHPSESSID=b964065077a1de19538c4c7b1cf9e825 ''Seeds of Treason''], (NY: Funk and Wagnalls, 1950), pgs. 107-109.</ref> After the Yalta conference Hiss traveled on to Moscow with Secretary of State Stettinius, [[Venona project]] transcript #1822 dated 30 March 1945 reads in part |
| | :"For some years past he has been the leader of a small group of probatiners (STAZhERY), for the most part consisting of his relations. | | :"For some years past he has been the leader of a small group of probatiners (STAZhERY), for the most part consisting of his relations. |