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fered a job in the Justice Department. I told him the party wanted him to take it. In January 1937 I took Hiss to New York City to meet Colonel Bykov. Bykov was a stocky, well-built man. He spoke to us in German. I translated. Bykov asked Hiss to get State Department documents. Hiss agreed. Bykov wanted Hiss's brother to get State Department docu-
REDS MADE HISS STATE DEPl MAN
Headline from the New York Daily Mirror
ments, too. Hiss said he didn't know if his brother was developed enough for such work. Bykov suggested that Hiss persuade him.
A few months later I told Hiss we wanted more papers. So he brought the documents home and Mrs. Hiss typed them.* She had always wanted to do underground work. Sometimes Hiss gave me small handwritten notes about documents that he had seen but couldn't get out. In 1937 I gave Hiss an Oriental rug in appreciation of his work for the Russians. My friend Meyer Schapiro got me the rug. I met Hiss at
*Photocopying had not been invented in 1938. The common practice was to make carbon copies.
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