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"huge amount of documents" had led him to "make a firm conclusion that Alger Hiss was not ever or anywhere recruited as an agent of the intelligence services of the Soviet Union. "
He also said that Soviet archives revealed that Chambers had never had "any kind of secret or spy information." "Tell Alger Hiss that the heavy weight should be lifted from his heart. May he in his advanced age breathe freely and look with wide-open eyes at this wonderful, complex, and multifaceted world of ours."
Some critics of Hiss questioned how thorough Volkogonov's search through the millions of pages of material in Soviet archives was. But eighty-seven-year-old Alger Hiss celebrated the good news with his family and friends.
What Do You Think?
If Alger Hiss didn't steal the documents, who did? Why did they do it, and how was it done?
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