01-09-2015, 04:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-09-2015, 05:04 AM by Jim DiEugenio.)
Alger Hiss even got on national TV at this time, in addition to the Ny Times. I think it was ABC which had him on after Nixon resigned.
This was followed by that extraordinary film that Dawn talks about, The Trials of Alger Hiss, which you cannot get anymore!
Is that not incredible? Because it was a really good movie that was very well reviewed and played in major theaters. How many documentaries do that today?
And you also had a series of books which came out also on the case at that time.
Today, after the huge MSM sendoff goven to the Weinstein book and the Tanenhaus biography of Chambers, which were clearly planned in advance to bounce off each other, plus the Venona files, which turned out to be false, Hiss' innocence has now been reversed again. Was there a payoff? Of course. Weinstein became NARA chief, and Tanenhaus becomes NY Times book review editor.
LOL
BTW, this all started with the leaks of the Venona files to Thomas Powers. Richard Helm's official biographer.
It now turns out, through work by Kai Bird among others, that the so called "Ales" in Venona cannot be Hiss. Weinstein's book was shredded by Victor Navasky among others. It turns out that, like Posner, he misrepresented what his witnesses told him. But that did not matter. He was doing the MSM's bidding.
This was followed by that extraordinary film that Dawn talks about, The Trials of Alger Hiss, which you cannot get anymore!
Is that not incredible? Because it was a really good movie that was very well reviewed and played in major theaters. How many documentaries do that today?
And you also had a series of books which came out also on the case at that time.
Today, after the huge MSM sendoff goven to the Weinstein book and the Tanenhaus biography of Chambers, which were clearly planned in advance to bounce off each other, plus the Venona files, which turned out to be false, Hiss' innocence has now been reversed again. Was there a payoff? Of course. Weinstein became NARA chief, and Tanenhaus becomes NY Times book review editor.
LOL
BTW, this all started with the leaks of the Venona files to Thomas Powers. Richard Helm's official biographer.
It now turns out, through work by Kai Bird among others, that the so called "Ales" in Venona cannot be Hiss. Weinstein's book was shredded by Victor Navasky among others. It turns out that, like Posner, he misrepresented what his witnesses told him. But that did not matter. He was doing the MSM's bidding.