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Chambers accuses Hiss of being a communist
History.com (This day in history) ^ | 08/02/2016 | staff

Posted on 08/03/2016 10:49:14 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen

In hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Whittaker Chambers accuses former State Department official Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union. The accusation set into motion a series of events that eventually resulted in the trial and conviction of Hiss for perjury.

--SNIP-- Hiss filed a slander suit. During the course of that trial, Chambers produced microfilmed copies of classified State Department documents from the 1930s, which he had hidden in hollowed-out pumpkins on his farm. The “Pumpkin Papers” were used as evidence to support his claim that Hiss had passed the papers to him for delivery to the Soviets.

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Commies lie and deny. Sound familiar?
1 posted on 08/03/2016 10:49:14 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
Witness is one of the best books I've ever read.

Chambers was a brave man.

2 posted on 08/03/2016 10:56:48 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Kid Shelleen

Alger Hiss was also President of the Carnegie Foundation.

The Reece Commission in 1953/54 on Large Tax Exempt Foundations found that the goals of these two foundations was to keep America constantly at war and to change education. The long-term goal was to create a collectivist society that could one day be merged with Russia (one-world government, Russia just being the other Superpower of the day.)

Here is an interview with Norman Dodd (lead investigator of the majority for Carroll Reece) and G Edward Griffin (Creature from Jeckyl Island.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUYCBfmIcHM


3 posted on 08/03/2016 10:56:52 AM PDT by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: Madame Dufarge

One of the best books I've ever read.

4 posted on 08/03/2016 11:00:04 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: blam

“One of the best books I’ve ever read. “


Ditto !

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5 posted on 08/03/2016 11:01:00 AM PDT by Mears ("Does it really matter?)
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To: blam

Was it ever actually ILLEGAL to be a Communist? If not, why not? If so, when did it not become illegal?


6 posted on 08/03/2016 11:05:59 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam looks perversion look genteel.)
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To: Mears
Chambers beleived in Communism until he heard SCREAMS!
7 posted on 08/03/2016 11:10:59 AM PDT by jobim
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To: Safetgiver

I don’t think he was actually a communist. He was a globalist, part of the Anglo-American Establishment Carroll Quigley (Bill Clinton’s mentor and professor at Georgetown) talked about in Tragedy and Hope.

Their goal is to overthrow the United States from within, slowly. So yes, that is a conspiracy of sedition.


8 posted on 08/03/2016 11:15:46 AM PDT by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (KAL 007))
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To: jobim

[ Chambers beleived in Communism until he heard SCREAMS! ]

Communism is nothing more than feudalism sold to the serfs by making them think you are doing them a favor...


9 posted on 08/03/2016 11:26:16 AM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: Madame Dufarge

I wish one of ours would make his story a film.


10 posted on 08/03/2016 11:29:51 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: Madame Dufarge

Same here.


11 posted on 08/03/2016 11:30:29 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Safetgiver

Although the Alien Registration Act (aka the Smith Act) of 1940, the Internal Security Act of 1950 and the Communist Control Act of 1954 placed restrictions on the Communist Party, it was never outlawed.


12 posted on 08/03/2016 11:36:14 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Madame Dufarge

Chambers was an American hero


13 posted on 08/03/2016 11:37:34 AM PDT by WashingtonFire
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To: Vic S

Alger Hiss worked for the GRU (Main Intelligence Administration), the Soviet Union military intelligence agency.


14 posted on 08/03/2016 11:41:11 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Vic S

Their goal is to overthrow the United States from within, slowly.....Worked,didn’t it?


15 posted on 08/03/2016 11:44:35 AM PDT by Safetgiver (Islam looks perversion look genteel.)
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To: GraceG

Exactly. And how eagerly they hail their neo-feudalistic masters.


16 posted on 08/03/2016 12:12:19 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Vic S

Hiss was a communist spy. A book that completely nails Hiss is “Perjury - The Hiss-Chambers Case”. The author set out to prove Hiss innocent. As he researched the book, the evidence mounted up against Hiss and the author ended up proving him guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. There is also evidence revealed later on from Soviet intelligence material that confirms his guilt.


17 posted on 08/03/2016 12:14:34 PM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: GraceG
Not quite.

Feudalism was a complex network of verbal agreements, with rare but real opportunities for upward mobility, but conveying a sense of agreed-upon order.

Communism, as so memorably and accurately described in the book Witness by Chambers, was utterly premised upon fear and terror.
18 posted on 08/03/2016 12:16:30 PM PDT by jobim
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To: Madame Dufarge

Way back when I first read Witness, I emailed Robert Novak telling him how I revered the book. He wrote back telling me I was now a member of the club that revered Witness.


19 posted on 08/03/2016 12:22:30 PM PDT by jonathonandjennifer
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To: jobim

. . . and the replacement of God with man.


20 posted on 08/03/2016 12:25:10 PM PDT by aspasia
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