Which State Department official was accused of being a member of the Communist Party?

Answer 1

In fact, a 'Time' editor, Whittaker Chambers, a former Stalinist spy himself, accused Alger Hiss of being a Soviet espionage agent ['Stalinist' as opposed to 'communist.' The USSR had about as much relation to communism as Detroit does to the Emerald City], but no proof was ever adduced to demonstrate that Hiss had been a member of the CP.

In reality, the argument still rages as to whether or not Chambers was lying through his teeth, a habit in which he apparently indulged with some frequency as you will see on these web sites: For more thorough information, see AlgerHiss.com and DocumentsTalk.com.

As you read through these web sites and the relevant books, you'll probably find that the case boils down to forensics:Was the paper evidence, the socalled Baltimore Documents forged by an Army intelligence operative named Horace Schmahl [or someone else], and did someone refabricat/rebuild, the typewriter thought to have been the instrument that supposedly typed them into one that would reproduce exactly the text from another machine, the sort of forgery that both the British and the Germans did in WWII ?

jmc

Westwood NJ