- Weinstein , Allen . 1978 . Perjury: The Hiss‐Chambers Case , New York : Alfred A. Knopf .
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- Hook , Sidney . 1987 . Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century , 275 New York : Harper and Row .
- Based in Washington, D.C. and headed by Harold Ware, an agricultural specialist and the son of a famous Communist matriarch, this group originally contained eight members, five possessing Harvard degrees, including Alger Hiss and his brother Donald. Their twofold task was to transmit copies of photographed government documents via New York to Moscow and, as young dedicated careerists, to penetrate old‐line agencies” such as the War, State, Treasury, and Interior Departments in order to influence future policy.
- Often forgotten is the fact that Chambers had purposely decided not to raise the espionage issue. Not until after Hiss had filed a slander suit, which led to the first trial, was Chambers forced to retract his earlier denial and affirm Hiss's involvement as a spy.
- Powers's , Richard Gid . 1995 . Not Without Honor: The History of American Anti‐Communism , New York : Free Press . It is disconcerting, for example, that Anthony Lake, President Clinton's former National Security Advisor and ill‐fated DCI nominee, declared recently on “Meet the Press” that the evidence against Hiss was “inconclusive.” Similarly, George McGovern, addressing a group of historians this past spring, voiced his belief that “the full truth of this matter is not yet known,” calling Hiss “a public‐spirited American” who had been “singled out for a one‐sided prosecution.” Even a study as well‐intentioned as
- Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr., 1954–1961, William F. Buckley, Jr., ed. (Washington, D.C: Regnery Books, 1987), p. 78. Tanenhaus cites an earlier letter from Chambers to Buckley, but its particular circumstances — his refusal to endorse Buckley's new book defending McCarthy — had elicited a more restrained characterization.
- Corn , David . 1994 . Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and The CIA's Crusades , New York : Simon & Schuster .
- 1995 . International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence , 8 ( 2, 3 and 4 ) For a more extended discussion of some of these issues, see “Chronicles of a Secret War” (I, II and III) by this writer in
- Westerfield , H. Bradford . 1996 . “America and the World of Intelligence Liaison,” . Intelligence and National Security , 11 ( 3 ) July : 526 553 – 554 . (notes 5–7).