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In prison, Hiss' [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/7/1988_7_18.shtml best friends] were the Mafia gangsters, whom he later compared to prisoners of war in terms of solidarity, hierarchy and discipline.<ref>Alger Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jot3UHV59BgC Recollections of a Life]'' (Arcade, 1989) ISBN 1559700246, p. 168</ref> He called them “the [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/brower.html most stable group] in any prison” and “[http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/printer_friendly.php?id=684 the healthiest inmates] of the prison” because they “had absolutely no sense of guilt.”<ref>Hiss to C. Vann Woodward, May 2, 1959, quoted in Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dkeRKZOX2n4C Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Random House, 1997 ed.), p. 581; G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2005) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 87-88</ref> Hiss admitted that he, too, never felt guilt about anything he had ever done—as one Hiss biographer comments, “an [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E9146EC9-A031-4F77-9691-F4C7F1ACA9F4 incredible statement] from anyone.”
In prison, Hiss' [http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1988/7/1988_7_18.shtml best friends] were the Mafia gangsters, whom he later compared to prisoners of war in terms of solidarity, hierarchy and discipline.<ref>Alger Hiss, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=jot3UHV59BgC Recollections of a Life]'' (Arcade, 1989) ISBN 1559700246, p. 168</ref> He called them “the [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/brower.html most stable group] in any prison” and “[http://ariannaonline.huffingtonpost.com/columns/printer_friendly.php?id=684 the healthiest inmates] of the prison” because they “had absolutely no sense of guilt.”<ref>Hiss to C. Vann Woodward, May 2, 1959, quoted in Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dkeRKZOX2n4C Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Random House, 1997 ed.), p. 581; G. Edward White, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=FvR4HBTiYzAC Alger Hiss's Looking-Glass Wars: The Covert Life of a Soviet Spy]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2005) ISBN 0195182553, pp. 87-88</ref> Hiss admitted that he, too, never felt guilt about anything he had ever done—as one Hiss biographer comments, “an [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E9146EC9-A031-4F77-9691-F4C7F1ACA9F4 incredible statement] from anyone.”
== Later Life ==
== Later Life ==575
Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated.<ref>Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," Modern Age, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 309 (PDF p. 3)</ref> In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1858F750-23F1-43DF-93C8-86E30C5224E2 lies and cover-ups],” and complained that "Alger was willing to [http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=445F476F-9BFF-4E61-AED9-733CFFE94E65 sacrifice us all] on the altar of his vindication." Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married].
Hiss was released in 1954. Disbarred, he became a salesman. Five years later, Alger and Priscilla Hiss separated.<ref>Matthew Richer, "[http://www.mmisi.org/ma/46_04/richer.pdf The Ongoing Campaign of Alger Hiss: The Sins of the Father]," Modern Age, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Fall 2004), p. 309 (PDF p. 3)</ref> In the late '60s, Hiss met Mrs. Isabel Dowden Johnson, a former [http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00103 editor at ''The New York Times'' and ex-wife] of [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0170660/bio the Communist]<ref>Cole, who titled his 1981 memoir ''Hollywood Red'', "remained a hardcore Communist" until his death in 1985. Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=J_BkAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Red Star Over Hollywood]'' (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005) ISBN 1893554961, p. 29; Cf. Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YWtZAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s]'' (Rocklin, Calif: Prima Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0761513760, pp. 266-267</ref> screen writer Lester Cole, a member of the "Hollywood Ten." Priscilla reportedly had a breakdown, in which she said she was “tired of all the [http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=1858F750-23F1-43DF-93C8-86E30C5224E2 lies and cover-ups],” and complained that "Alger was willing to [http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=445F476F-9BFF-4E61-AED9-733CFFE94E65 sacrifice us all] on the altar of his vindication." Following Priscilla's death in 1984, [http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/07/nyregion/isabel-j-hiss-91-widow-of-alger-hiss.html Alger and Isabel married].
In 1974, the [[Watergate]] scandal forced [[Richard M. Nixon|President Nixon]] to resign, giving "some credence to a wide spectrum of [http://www.historynet.com/the-alger-hiss-spy-case.htm/4 conspiracy theories] involving fake typewriters, phony microfilm, and various collusions among the FBI, Nixon, HUAC, the CIA, the radical right, and the KGB." In 1975, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted Hiss' petition for readmittance to the State Bar of Massachusetts, although the court's ruling stated "nothing we have said here should be construed as detracting one iota from the fact that in considering Hiss's petition we consider him to be [http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/368/368mass447.html guilty as charged]."
In 1974, the [[Watergate]] scandal forced [[Richard M. Nixon|President Nixon]] to resign, giving "some credence to a wide spectrum of [http://www.historynet.com/the-alger-hiss-spy-case.htm/4 conspiracy theories]<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=dkeRKZOX2n4C Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case]'' (New York: Random House, 1997 ed.), p. 575</ref> involving fake typewriters, phony microfilm, and various collusions among the FBI, Nixon, HUAC, the CIA, the radical right, and the KGB." In 1975, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court granted Hiss' petition for readmittance to the State Bar of Massachusetts, although the court's ruling stated "nothing we have said here should be construed as detracting one iota from the fact that in considering Hiss's petition we consider him to be [http://masscases.com/cases/sjc/368/368mass447.html guilty as charged]."
In 1981, Bard College established an [http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/haury.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Alger Hiss Distinguished Professorship] in Social Studies, formerly held by [http://www.joelkovel.org/joelkovel.html socialist]<ref>Kovel advocates what he calls "ecosocialism," which he defines as Marxian communism—the "realization" of what he calls "'first-epoch' socialism" (that is, "neither more nor less than the [http://www.joelkovel.org/messages.html#socialism original announcement of the ''Communist Manifesto'']")—not in pursuit of "unfettered productivity' ''a la'' Marx, but to further fetter productivity in the interest of environmentalism.</ref> Joel Kovel, who declared that America's obsession with anti-Communism during the Cold War led the U.S. to become “the [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/in-denial-by-john-earl-haynes-and-harvey-klehr-9668 enemy of humanity].” By the time Nixon died in 1994, ''Foreign Policy'' magazine could assign the task of reviewing his posthumous book, ''Beyond Peace'', to his embittered foe, [[George McGovern]], who took the opportunity to avenge his humiliating 49-state landslide defeat by Nixon, writing (without explanation), "The evidence that Hiss was a security risk to the United States simply is not convincing," labeling Hiss' conviction "dubious," and suggesting that Nixon's "prosecution of Alger Hiss probably belongs on the same level" as "political demagoguery of the worst sort—unscrupulous attacks on the patriotism of deeply devoted [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/archive/archive/096/65.PDF public servants of the first rank]."<ref>Former Kennedy administration official Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. would use remarkably similar words the following year to defend [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Vassiliev%20Notebooks%20Concordance2.pdf Soviet agent] Laurence Duggan as "an [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9704&week=c&msg=zRT5drfjEeXIWFvFkKCqww&user=&pw= able public servant]."</ref>
In 1981, Bard College established an [http://dlib.nyu.edu/eadapp/transform?source=tamwag/haury.xml&style=tamwag/tamwag.xsl&part=body Alger Hiss Distinguished Professorship] in Social Studies, formerly held by [http://www.joelkovel.org/joelkovel.html socialist]<ref>Kovel advocates what he calls "ecosocialism," which he defines as Marxian communism—the "realization" of what he calls "'first-epoch' socialism" (that is, "neither more nor less than the [http://www.joelkovel.org/messages.html#socialism original announcement of the ''Communist Manifesto'']")—not in pursuit of "unfettered productivity' ''a la'' Marx, but to further fetter productivity in the interest of environmentalism.</ref> Joel Kovel, who declared that America's obsession with anti-Communism during the Cold War led the U.S. to become “the [http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/in-denial-by-john-earl-haynes-and-harvey-klehr-9668 enemy of humanity].” By the time Nixon died in 1994, ''Foreign Policy'' magazine could assign the task of reviewing his posthumous book, ''Beyond Peace'', to his embittered foe, [[George McGovern]], who took the opportunity to avenge his humiliating 49-state landslide defeat by Nixon, writing (without explanation), "The evidence that Hiss was a security risk to the United States simply is not convincing," labeling Hiss' conviction "dubious," and suggesting that Nixon's "prosecution of Alger Hiss probably belongs on the same level" as "political demagoguery of the worst sort—unscrupulous attacks on the patriotism of deeply devoted [http://www.foreignpolicy.com/Ning/archive/archive/096/65.PDF public servants of the first rank]."<ref>Former Kennedy administration official Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. would use remarkably similar words the following year to defend [http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/docs/Vassiliev%20Notebooks%20Concordance2.pdf Soviet agent] Laurence Duggan as "an [http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-diplo&month=9704&week=c&msg=zRT5drfjEeXIWFvFkKCqww&user=&pw= able public servant]."</ref>