Alger Hiss, Meet Robert Malley

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An American state department official, Alger Hiss, denying he was a member of a Communist cell before the House Committee on Un-American Activities on August 28 1948. William Bond/Keystone/Getty Images

Alger Hiss was the most famous Soviet agent in the American government during World War II. Because he was Harvard and Johns Hopkins educated — and moved in the right social circles — people refused to believe Hiss could be a Soviet agent. 

Ultimately, he was exposed as a spy, and we now know from the Soviet archives that he (identified by his reported code name “Ales”) received a Soviet medal in February 1945. Some discredit the Hiss-Ales identification, but the FBI and NSA have reported it with near certainty for decades.

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