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Alger Hiss Rides Again

Spy case erupts; defenders turn to Nixonian tactics.

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Ron Rosenbaum is the author of The Shakespeare Wars and Explaining Hitler. His latest book is How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. 

Historical photograph of Alger Hiss courtesy the Library of Congress; 1992 photograph by Agence France Presse.