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The first, called [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/ "The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth"] was created in 2001 "[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html with grants from... the Nation Institute]."  The site was started by Hiss's son Tony, a visiting scholar at New York University. "The basic question&mdash;whether Alger Hiss was a spy for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s&mdash;was finally settled during the 1990s," writes Ehrman. "Today, only a small band of true believers, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/alger_hiss.html headed by Hiss’s son], still tries to argue his innocence." [http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1983 Pulitzer Prize–winning] author Ted Morgan concurs: "One example of a dupe is Tony Hiss, who has made a career out of filial piety and continues to proclaim the innocence of his father in the face of irrefutable evidence."<ref>Ted Morgan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4ijWhgff9XEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America]'' (New York: Random House, Inc., 2004) ISBN 081297302X), p. 635, n. 199</ref>

The first, called [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/ "The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth"] was created in 2001 "[http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html with grants from... the Nation Institute]."  The site was started by Hiss's son Tony, a visiting scholar at New York University. "The basic question&mdash;whether Alger Hiss was a spy for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and 1940s&mdash;was finally settled during the 1990s," writes Ehrman. "Today, only a small band of true believers, [https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol48no4/alger_hiss.html headed by Hiss’s son], still tries to argue his innocence." [http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1983 Pulitzer Prize–winning] author Ted Morgan concurs: "One example of a dupe is Tony Hiss, who has made a career out of filial piety and continues to proclaim the innocence of his father in the face of irrefutable evidence."<ref>Ted Morgan, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=4ijWhgff9XEC&source=gbs_navlinks_s Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America]'' (New York: Random House, Inc., 2004) ISBN 081297302X), p. 635, n. 199</ref>

After Hiss ''fils'' originally set up this site on an NYU server, the university requested that he move it [http://homepages.nyu.edu/ elsewhere] "to designate it more clearly as a [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all personal site] rather than an academic one." The Web site is run [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ out of the home] of "Web master" Jeff Kisseloff, former [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/navobit.html aide to Alger Hiss] and [http://www.thenation.com/authors/jeff-kisseloff archivist] of ''The Nation''.

After Hiss ''fils'' originally set up this site on an NYU server, the university requested that he move it elsewhere "to designate it more clearly as a [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all personal site] rather than an academic one." The Web site is run [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ out of the home] of "Web master" Jeff Kisseloff, former [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/navobit.html aide to Alger Hiss] and [http://www.thenation.com/authors/jeff-kisseloff archivist] of ''The Nation''.

Although the site is [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/images/logo2.gif blazoned] "Search for the Truth," [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html buried] within is the admission that its real purpose is to present only "the case for the defense," not both sides. Linder warns that "the site maintains a [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss_links.html decidedly sympathetic] view of Hiss." Cornell Law Library agrees, "The site has a [http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/archive/insite277.html noticeable editorial bias] in favor of Hiss." ''New York Times Book Review'' editor Sam Tanenhaus concurs, "It's a [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ blatantly pro-Hiss] operation whose agenda is to advocate his innocence." Greenberg concludes, "I don't think anyone is going to treat this site as the repository of truth, except for those who have [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all already made up their minds] that Hiss was innocent." Under the snarky headline “[http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2001_03_01_dish_archive.html#2902598 FLAT EARTH WATCH],” [http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/barack-obama-for-president/209143/ Obama-booster] Andrew Sullivan says the site is dedicated to “the greatest fantasy on the web”&mdash;“the proposition that Alger Hiss was innocent.”

Although the site is [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/images/logo2.gif blazoned] "Search for the Truth," [http://homepages.nyu.edu/~th15/aboutus.html buried] within is the admission that its real purpose is to present only "the case for the defense," not both sides. Linder warns that "the site maintains a [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss_links.html decidedly sympathetic] view of Hiss." Cornell Law Library agrees, "The site has a [http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/insiteasp/archive/insite277.html noticeable editorial bias] in favor of Hiss." ''New York Times Book Review'' editor Sam Tanenhaus concurs, "It's a [http://www.slate.com/id/1007346/pagenum/all/ blatantly pro-Hiss] operation whose agenda is to advocate his innocence." Greenberg concludes, "I don't think anyone is going to treat this site as the repository of truth, except for those who have [http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/online-the-hiss-defense-doesn-t-rest.html?pagewanted=all already made up their minds] that Hiss was innocent." Under the snarky headline “[http://sullivanarchives.theatlantic.com/index.php.dish_inc-archives.2001_03_01_dish_archive.html#2902598 FLAT EARTH WATCH],” [http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/11/barack-obama-for-president/209143/ Obama-booster] Andrew Sullivan says the site is dedicated to “the greatest fantasy on the web”&mdash;“the proposition that Alger Hiss was innocent.”