@article{866965,
      recid = {866965},
      title = {FBI file : Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers.},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      note = {Date range of documents: 1937-1977.},
      abstract = {No single episode did more to set off alarms of a diabolic  "Red" conspiracy within the national government than the  case of Alger Hiss. In the midst of the 1948 presidential  campaign, the House Un-American Activities Committee  conducted a hearing in which Whittaker Chambers, a senior  editor at Time magazine and former Soviet agent who had  broken with the communists in 1938, identified Hiss, who  had worked as an aide to the assistant secretary of state,  as an underground party member in the 1930s. This file  traces that machinations of the many figures involved in  one of the era's most famous witch hunts. Trails of  evidence are followed through correspondence between  alleged Communist Party members and sympathizers, as well  as interviews with associates of the accused. The archive  is an invaluable resource on the Second Red Scare and the  internal politics of the United States during the early  years of the Cold War.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/866965},
}