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38 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
vision was stealing papers and turning them over to Chambers. We believe there was another thief in the Far Eastern Division.
When Chambers first produced the documents, he did not turn over everything he had. A few days later, he showed two FBI men microfilm that he had secreted in a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm. The microfilm contained photographs of documents from Wadleigh's division. Three documents were dated January 14, 1938. These documents had the stamp of Hiss's boss, Francis B. Sayre, and the initials A.H.— Alger Hiss. You will learn that on the afternoon of January 14, Sayre was out of his office. Wadleigh often visited Sayre's office and stopped by Hiss's office to talk with him.
Several of these typewritten documents did not go to Sayre s office. And if they did not go to Sayre's office, they could not have been stolen by Hiss and typed by his wife, unless he stole them from some other office.
We believe that either Chambers or one of his confederates typed those documents. Any man who got people to steal top-secret documents out of the State Department wouldn't have had much trouble tracing and getting the Woodstock typewriter, wherever it was.
So, did Alger Hiss transfer documents to Chambers in 1938? You will have to decide.
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