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===Nye Committee===

===Nye Committee===

In 1934, again with an assist from [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]] (according to [[New Deal|New Dealer]]<ref>Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/books/the-truest-believer.html?pagewanted=all The Truest Believer]," ''The New York Times'', March 9, 1997</ref> Gardner Jackson),<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 143</ref> Hiss became General Counsel for the [[U.S. Senate]]'s [[Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry|Nye committee]],<ref>[http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms002504.html Biographical Sketch. Alger Hiss Collection, 1934-1979] (Maryland Historical Society)</ref> which investigated people Chairman Gerald P. Nye (R.-N.D.)<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=n000176 Nye, Gerald Prentice (1892-1971)], Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present</ref> called [[Wall Street]]'s "merchants of death,"<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/merchants_of_death.htm 1921-1940: September 4, 1934, "Merchants of Death" (United States Senate: Historical Minutes)]</ref> whom he accused of conspiracy to lead the [[United States|U.S.]] into war with [[Germany]]. One scholar has dubbed this a "witch-hunt" for "subversive [[capitalist]]s," in which Hiss was to Nye what [[Roy Cohn]] would later be to [[Senator]] [[Joe McCarthy]] (R.-Wisc.)<ref>Peter Viereck, ''Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect'' (Edison, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004) ISBN 0765808064, pp. 156-157</ref> On the theory that "capitalism was a cause of aggression,"<ref>James Grant, ''Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend'' (John Wiley and Sons, 1997) ISBN 0471170755, p. 261</ref> Hiss employing what would later come to be known as "McCarthyite" methods, badgered witnesses such as Bernard Baruch,<ref>Arthur M. Herman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator]'' (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 220</ref> reportedly the first man to openly assert that Hiss was a [[communist]].<ref>Bruce Craig, “[http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_bruce_craig.pdf Alger Hiss: Recent Explorations in Documenting the Public and Private Man],” Alger Hiss and History (Inaugural Conference, Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University) April 5, 2007</ref>

In 1934, again with an assist from [[Lee Pressman|Pressman]] (according to [[New Deal|New Dealer]]<ref>Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "[http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/books/the-truest-believer.html?pagewanted=all The Truest Believer]," ''The New York Times'', March 9, 1997</ref> Gardner Jackson),<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 143</ref> Hiss became General Counsel for the [[U.S. Senate]]'s [[Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry|Nye committee]],<ref>[http://www.mdhs.org/library/Mss/ms002504.html Biographical Sketch. Alger Hiss Collection, 1934-1979] (Maryland Historical Society)</ref> which investigated people Chairman Gerald P. Nye (R.-N.D.)<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=n000176 Nye, Gerald Prentice (1892-1971)], Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present</ref> called [[Wall Street]]'s "merchants of death,"<ref>[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/merchants_of_death.htm 1921-1940: September 4, 1934, "Merchants of Death" (United States Senate: Historical Minutes)]</ref> whom he accused of conspiracy to lead the [[United States|U.S.]] into war with [[Germany]]. One scholar has dubbed this a "witch-hunt" for "subversive [[capitalist]]s," in which Hiss was to Nye what [[Roy Cohn]] would later be to [[Senator]] [[Joe McCarthy]] (R.-Wisc.)<ref>Peter Viereck, ''Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect'' (Edison, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2004) ISBN 0765808064, pp. 156-157</ref> On the theory that "capitalism was a cause of aggression,"<ref>James Grant, ''Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend'' (John Wiley and Sons, 1997) ISBN 0471170755, p. 261</ref> Hiss employed what would later come to be known as "McCarthyite" methods, badgering witnesses such as Bernard Baruch,<ref>Arthur M. Herman, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=DIibZoDyADEC Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator]'' (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999) ISBN 0684836254, p. 220</ref> reportedly the first man to openly assert that Hiss was a [[communist]].<ref>Bruce Craig, “[http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/hiss_bruce_craig.pdf Alger Hiss: Recent Explorations in Documenting the Public and Private Man],” Alger Hiss and History (Inaugural Conference, Center for the United States and the Cold War, New York University) April 5, 2007</ref>

The [[Soviets]] took great interest in the work of the committee for its [[propaganda]] value<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors'' (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, pp. 115-116</ref> as well as its access to classified documents on U.S. armaments and foreign policy.<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America&mdash;the Stalin Era'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, p. 40</ref> [[Moscow]] had at least one source on the staff of the committee, who provided valuable documents to the [[Kremlin]] in 1935,<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America&mdash;the Stalin Era'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, pp. 28-29</ref> the same year an agent later code-named "Ales" (pronounced "Alles") began working for [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]].<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1945/30mar_kgb_interviews_gru_agent.pdf Venona 1822 Washington to Moscow 30 March 1945]</ref> Nye would tell FBI investigators that he believed Hiss was a [[Communist]] at the time,<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 43-44</ref> and would later say he believed Hiss used his position on the committee for [[espionage]].<ref>John E. Wiltz, ''In Search of Peace: The Senate Munitions Inquiry, 1934-1936'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963) ISBN B000GX1RX0, p. 53</ref>

The [[Soviets]] took great interest in the work of the committee for its [[propaganda]] value<ref>Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel, ''The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors'' (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2001) ISBN 0895262258, pp. 115-116</ref> as well as its access to classified documents on U.S. armaments and foreign policy.<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America&mdash;the Stalin Era'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, p. 40</ref> [[Moscow]] had at least one source on the staff of the committee, who provided valuable documents to the [[Kremlin]] in 1935,<ref>Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev, ''The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America&mdash;the Stalin Era'', (New York: Random House, 1999), ISBN 0375755365, pp. 28-29</ref> the same year an agent later code-named "Ales" (pronounced "Alles") began working for [[GRU|Soviet military intelligence]].<ref>[http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1945/30mar_kgb_interviews_gru_agent.pdf Venona 1822 Washington to Moscow 30 March 1945]</ref> Nye would tell FBI investigators that he believed Hiss was a [[Communist]] at the time,<ref>Allen Weinstein, ''Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case'' (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), ISBN 0394495462, p. 43-44</ref> and would later say he believed Hiss used his position on the committee for [[espionage]].<ref>John E. Wiltz, ''In Search of Peace: The Senate Munitions Inquiry, 1934-1936'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963) ISBN B000GX1RX0, p. 53</ref>