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The Second Trial Of Alger Hiss Research Paper

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During the Cold War, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union caused a period of distress and wariness. To regulate the assimilation of power and obtain information from the opposing side, several Soviet spies were dispatched. Alger Hiss, alongside Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, are only three of the many convicted spies. Alger Hiss was a former U.S. State Department official whose espionage has been heavily debated among scholars. In December of 1948, a Soviet agent known as Whittaker Chambers accused Hiss of providing him with State Department papers. This claim was refuted by Hiss; however, he was still charged with two perjury counts. Later, he served two trials, the first in 1949 and the second in 1950. The jury was unable to reach a verdict in the first trial, yet Hiss was found guilty during the second trial. After fulfilling about four years of his five-year prison sentence, he was discharged in 1954. At the request of Hiss in 1992, Russian officials searched archives for any evidence he had cooperated with the Soviet Union. The search was incapable of providing any indications that Hiss had worked as a spy, although in 1996, U.S. officials discovered …show more content…

At the same time as his employment at the Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories, he supported the Soviet Union through espionage. Rosenberg supplied the Soviet Union with valuable information, including various reports on nuclear weapons and a proximity fuze model. He contributed to the employment of others to partake in espionage for the Soviet Union. One of these new members was his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, who worked on producing molds for high-explosive lenses. Greenglass sent Rosenberg details of the atomic bomb, along with a sketch. Later, in 1950, Greenglass and the Rosenbergs were arrested after Greenglass confessed to passing information between each other and the Soviet

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