“I hope you will not think I am being melodramatic when I say that my life, and that of my family, has been ruined by this charge.”

About Alger Hiss

Government Official • American

Alger Hiss was an American government official who was involved in the establishment of the United Nations. He was accused in 1948 of having been a spy for the Soviet Union, a charge he vehemently denied. Although the...