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Prosecution's Closing Statement / 157
Because of these stolen documents, strictly confidential information was transferred to Russia. That was espionage. The other, more significant damage was that the Russians got our coded cables and got the chance to break our codes.
One of Mr. Hiss's handwritten memos is dated when Wadleigh was on the high seas. Now why did this brilliant fellow make a word-for-word copy of a cable involving a passport fraud when all he had to do was tell Mr. Sayre about trade agreements? Why? Because the telegram was about a Russian informer. We have not heard about that poor fellow since.
And why were all four of these notes neatly folded instead of crumpled? Because that's how Alger Hiss took them out of the office. If a note is no longer of use to you, you just crumple it up and throw it away. You don't go through this business of folding it unless you are going to take it out.
Ladies and gentlemen, what do the microfilm, the memos, and the typewriter prove? Treason, and Hiss is the traitor. Go into the jury room and come back with the courage of your convictions and tell this world that our faith in the American jury system is well founded.
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