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82 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Chambers had taken him to dinner with Colonel Bykov. His description of Bykov differed from Chambers's, but the other details of the dinner matched Chambers's description of the dinner with Hiss and Bykov.
Cross-Examination by the Defense
The defense believed that Wadleigh had passed the documents to Chambers, since almost all of them had come from his division. Wadleigh admitted that in two years he had given four hundred or so documents to Chambers. He insisted he wasn't a traitor and refused to use the word steal to describe his taking of the documents. The defense asked Wadleigh to look at twenty-one documents and say whether or not he had seen them before. Four of these documents were not stamped or initialed by either Sayre or Hiss. Wadleigh admitted that he "might have seen" reports similar to these four documents. He said it was "remotely possible" that he might have seen and passed six other documents, which were on Far Eastern matters, because carbons of these documents were kept in his office's files. He said he "might have seen" twelve others, including a memo from Sayre. That memo was
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