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about the Hiss case was raging, Berle testified under oath that Chambers merely had mentioned a “Marxist study group.” In addition, Berle has said privately that classified material that Hiss was handling was reaching the Russians. This seems the most damaging piece of information against Hiss. Berle was not the only one to have knowledge of Hiss’ participation in a Soviet spy ring. On May 17, 1935, U.S. Ambassador William C. Bullitt was in Warsaw to attend the funeral of Marshal Jozsef Pilsudski. While there, he gave confidential assurances to the Polish government that the United States would support Poland if they resisted Nazi aggression to the point of war. Bullitt then formally reported to the State Department that he had made these assurances. At this time, Hiss was

in the department. Hiss passed on this highly classified information to the NKVD. The Soviet secret police, which maintained relationship with German intelligence, transmitted the information to the Nazis. It was used by Joseph Goebbels of Germany to depict Roosevelt and the entire United States as supporter of war. In 1938, as U.S. Ambassador to France, Bullitt was told by Premier Edourd Daladier that Alger Hiss, a government official, was a Soviet agent. Later in 1940, Bullitt was on a call with Stanley Hornbeck, chief of the State Department’s division of Far Eastern Affairs. Bullitt testified that Hornbeck was interrupted by Alger Hiss. He then informed Hornbeck of what Daladier had told him and urged an investigation. There was no investigation, and Hornbeck swore on the

witness stand during Hiss? trial that he had never heard anything to challenge Hiss’ reputation. Alger Hiss died on November 15, 1996, at the age of 92. Although Hiss insisted upon the fact that he was innocent, the majority of evidence does indeed confirm that Alger Hiss was guilty.