 Alger Hiss
(November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996)Alger Hiss was a U.S. State Department official and Secretary General to the founding charter conference of the United Nations. He was found guilty and went to jail for lying to a grand jury while under investigation for being part of a Communist spy ring, largely due to testimony by Whitaker Chambers. Many years later after the fall of Communism, a Russian general claimed that Hiss was innocent because he was the person Hiss was supposed to have given information to. Hiss remains controversial. At the time Quakers were divided in their sympathies for Hiss and Chambers who was also a Quaker. |