Alger Hiss - New Deal
Alger Hiss.
Photo courtesy U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Victims of Stalin's Terror-Famine, Ukraine,
1933. Source: Andrew Gregorovich, "Black Famine in Ukraine
1932-33: A Struggle for Existence," Forum: A Ukrainian Review No. 24 (1974)In 1933, Frankfurter sent Hiss a
telegram[52] strongly urging him[53] to join the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a liberal[54] Democrat.[55]
Pressman had already gotten into the
government, in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). That New
Deal[56] agency was the brainchild of FDR's Secretary of
Agriculture (and future Vice
President) Henry Wallace, who was reportedly "most
impressed" with Soviet collective farming (and urged FDR to become a
"farm dictator"). After running for President in 1948 on the
Communist-inspired[57] Progressive Party ticket, Wallace would finally recant
his support for the Soviet Union[58] in
1952.[59]
Mother of seven children without food, California, ca. February
1936. Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress
At the peak
of Stalin's
Terror Famine (which killed some 14 million[60] people through collectivization
of agriculture), the AAA curtailed U.S. farm
production in order to drive up food prices--at a time when (according to FDR)
one in three Americans was already "ill-nourished."[61]
In response to a query about candidates for
employment at AAA, Pressman wrote, "I have talked to Alger Hiss
and [fellow IJA member][62] Nat Witt who are considering" taking posts at
AAA. Hiss would later deny under oath that he had discussed the position with
Pressman,[63] but he soon got a position as assistant general counsel to the
AAA. There he met the Communist[64] Harold Ware,[65] son of American Communist
Party founder "Mother" Bloor. Ware had recently returned from several
years in the Soviet Union, where he had been instrumental in the organization
of collective farms.[66] Ware recruited Hiss[67] into a secret Communist Party
cell within AAA[68] known as the Ware group.[69]
Other members of this cell included Hiss's
Harvard friends Collins and Pressman (who would join the Communist Party about
this time),[70] as well as Witt (who would be identified as a fellow Communist
by Pressman),[71] secret Communist John Abt[72] and Soviet spy[73] Charles
Kramer. Abt would later admit having been a member of the Ware group, [74] as
would Communist writer Hope Hale Davis (wife of Comintern agent[75] Claud
Cockburn), who would write that its meetings involved discussions of how to
"achieve promotion—a primary goal," or whether to "try to
influence policy," as well as "secret directives—for purloining official
documents," etc.[76] This influx of radicals caused AAA administrator
George Peek to resign in protest, writing:
“A plague of young lawyers settled on Washington. They all
claimed to be friends of somebody or other and mostly of Felix
Frankfurter and Jerome Frank[77]... in the legal division were
formed the plans which eventually turned the AAA from a device to aid the
farmers into a device to introduce the collectivist system of agriculture into
this country.[78] ”
Even before the Federal Bureau of
Investigation would learn of Whittaker Chambers' charges, one of Hiss's
colleagues at the AAA[79] would tip off FBI investigators that Hiss and his
circle were fellow travelers, if not Communists.[80] In February 1935, the
"radicals" were "purged" from AAA. According to New Dealer Gardner Jackson:[81]
“ Late in the day of our dismissal Wallace
sent word that he would see two of the people on the dismissal list. Jerome
Frank and a member of his legal staff, Alger Hiss, were delegated for the
interview. Wallace haltingly greeted them (and, through them, others on the
list) as "the best fighters in a good cause" he had ever worked with.
But he said that he had to fire them. ”
As it turned out, Jackson, Frank and
Pressman were indeed fired—but Hiss was not. "Alger must have known at
least a week before the purge that it was coming," said Jackson. "He undoubtedly told Pressman,
and Lee told him what to do in order to remain in the Department as his
pipeline."[82]
Frank, believing Hiss to be closely linked
to a coterie of Communist lawyers at the agency, would later refuse to appear
as a character witness for him.[83] According to reporters Ralph de Toledano
and Victor Lasky (who covered the trials for Newsweek and the New York
World-Telegram, respectively): "When Hiss's lawyers approached a
well-known jurist to ask him if he would appear as a character witness [for
Hiss]...he said tartly: 'I have no way of knowing whether or not Mr. Hiss was
ever a Communist. But as to his character—Mr. Hiss has no character.'"[84]
Collins would refuse to testify on grounds
of potential self-incrimination,[85] but another AAA official, Nathaniel Weyl,
would later testify that he attended Communist cell meetings with Hiss[86] and
saw him pay his party dues,[87] testimony he would reaffirm in his 2004
autobiography.[88] Ex-Communists Ralph de Sola and George Hewitt would both
also testify to having seen Hiss at Communist Party
meetings.[89] A former GRU station chief in London and New York reported that
during the early and middle 1930s Hiss was a source of agent information for a
Soviet spy ring in Washington, the Silvermaster group, according to Pavel
Sudoplatov, former deputy director of Foreign Intelligence for the USSR.[90]
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Delano Roosevelt
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Delano Roosevelt was the president for the Franklin
Delano Roosevelt administration,
attended the Yalta Conference, and his
granddaughter is Laura Delano Roosevelt.
Note: Joseph
Stalin attended the Yalta Conference,
and was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR).
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attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
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is the president of the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace (think tank), a director at the American
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International Peace (think tank), and was the White House counsel
for the Barack Obama administration.
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for the Barack Obama administration.
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and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
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Gorbachev is an advisory board member for the Wheelchair
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Party of the Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph
Stalin was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), and attended the Yalta
Conference.
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Wallace Douglas is a governor at the Roosevelt Institute,
and Henry Agard Wallace’s grandson.
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Institute, and Henry Agard Wallace’s
daughter.
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Agard Wallace is David Wallace Douglas’s
grandfather, Jean Wallace Douglas’s father, the
vice president for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
administration, and the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Agriculture for the Franklin
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Brademas is a governor for the Roosevelt Institute,
and was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank).
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was the general secretary for the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, and the president of the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
Joseph
Stalin was the premier for the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR), and attended the Yalta
Conference.
Alger Hiss
attended the Yalta Conference with Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), and was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank).
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was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
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and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP
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and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
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Zirin is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and was a director at Human Rights First.
Mark A.
Angelson was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP,
and a director at Human Rights First.
Louis
Henkin was a director at Human Rights First,
and Felix Frankfurter’s clerk.
Felix
Frankfurter’s clerk was Louis Henkin,
and a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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was a director at Human Rights First, and the legal
adviser at the U.S. Department of State for the Barack Obama administration.
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