As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package wrapped ...
Alger Hiss' most personal comments appear in four short paragraphs at the end of his book. Summing up, Hiss writes: The ordeal of fighting false charges has disrupted my life and has brought pain to ...