From Alger Hiss to Russiagate: Seven decades of media lies

In the new issue of Harper’s magazine, a small article appears that claims Alger Hiss was innocent.

Hiss, who died in 1996, was a high-ranking State Department official in the 1930s and ’40s. Hiss was also a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. This was proven not only when Hiss was identified as a spy by a man named Whittaker Chambers in 1948, but in the Venona transcripts, secret Soviet cables that were made public by the United States in 1995.