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In 1996 the United States government released the Venona papers, decoded Russian intelligence intercepts dating from the mid-1940s.  These documents reference a Soviet spy at the State Department, code-named "Ales", whose biographical details matched those of Hiss.

In 1996 the United States government released the Venona papers, decoded Russian intelligence intercepts dating from the mid-1940s.  These documents reference a Soviet spy at the State Department, code-named "Ales", whose biographical details matched those of Hiss.

Alger Hiss's known [[cryptonym]]s were "Lawyer" <ref> Whittaker Chambers, ''Witness'' New York: Random House, (1952); Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'', New York: Random House, (ed. 1997); "Lawyer" in 1936, Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America�the Stalin Era'', New York: Random House, (1999), pg. 43.</ref> ("Advocate" <ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'', New York: Random House, (ed. 1997)</ref> or "Advokat" <ref>Whittaker Chambers, ''Witness'', New York: Random House, (1952).</ref> which was assigned during his brief time at the [[United States Department of Justice]] between [[1935]] and [[1936]], and "Ales" <ref>Venona; Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America�the Stalin Era'', New York: Random House, (1999);  Eduard Mark, ''Who Was Venona's Ales? Cryptanalysis and the Hiss Case'', Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 3 (Autumn 2003).</ref> in 1945. "Leonard" <ref>KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, ''The Gorsky Memo'', 1948.</ref> did not occur as a cover name in the World War II deciphered KGB Venona traffic and may be a later (or possibly earlier) cryptonym, or a GRU covername.

Alger Hiss's known [[cryptonym]]s were "Lawyer" <ref> Whittaker Chambers, ''Witness'' New York: Random House, (1952); Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'', New York: Random House, (ed. 1997); "Lawyer" in 1936, Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America�the Stalin Era'', New York: Random House, (1999), pg. 43.</ref> ("Advocate" <ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'', New York: Random House, (ed. 1997)</ref> or "Advokat" <ref>Whittaker Chambers, ''Witness'', New York: Random House, (1952).</ref> which was assigned during his brief time at the [[United States Department of Justice]] between 1935 and 1936, and "Ales" <ref>Venona; Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America�the Stalin Era'', New York: Random House, (1999);  Eduard Mark, ''Who Was Venona's Ales? Cryptanalysis and the Hiss Case'', Intelligence and National Security 18, no. 3 (Autumn 2003).</ref> in 1945. "Leonard" <ref>KGB file 43173 vol.2 (v) pp. 49-55, ''The Gorsky Memo'', 1948.</ref> did not occur as a cover name in the World War II deciphered KGB Venona traffic and may be a later (or possibly earlier) cryptonym, or a GRU covername.

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