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The 1948 Alger Hiss–Whittaker Chambers hearing before HUAC

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August 25, 1948

On this date, former State Department official Alger Hiss, and Whittaker Chambers, a former communist spy and magazine editor, faced each other in a public hearing before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).

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