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The Hisses say they knew him as George Crosley. Chambers used many false names.
Hiss sued Chambers for slander. Would he have done this if he was a spy and knew that Chambers had papers in his handwriting and papers typed on his typewriter?
When the lawsuit began, Hiss's lawyers asked Chambers for proof that Hiss was a spy. Three days later he produced an envelope of stolen documents. He said he had stored them in his nephew's apartment ten years before. But his nephew did not see him open that envelope, so we only have Chambers's word that secret documents were in it.
Four of the documents are memos in Hiss's handwriting. Not the slightest question about it. How they were gotten we will never know. All the typewritten documents, except Exhibit 10, were typed on a Woodstock typewriter that once belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Hiss. As to who actually typed the documents, only the person who did it knows. The Hisses' maid and her son will testify that the Hisses gave them this typewriter in late December 1937. So Mrs. Hiss could not have typed these documents, because they were all typed after January 1, 1938.
Exhibit 10 and Document 13 were sent only to the Far Eastern Division. From March 1936 until March 1938 Julian Wadleigh in the Trade Agreements Di-
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