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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 [[Harold Ware|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
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