Alger Hiss perjury trials

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The Alger Hiss perjury trials were a series of highly publicized late-1940s U.S. court cases in which former State Department official Alger Hiss was accused of lying under oath about spying for the Soviet Union, becoming a defining episode of early Cold War anti-communist politics.

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Alger Hiss case	5
Alger Hiss perjury trials canonical	2
House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Alger Hiss	1

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