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Join the discussion. Retrieved March 17, ProQuest Lamphere, 83, Spy Chaser for the F. According to Guttenplan, Vassiliev could never explain how he managed, despite being required to leave his files and notebooks in a safe at the KGB press office at the end of each day, to smuggle out the notebooks with his extensive transcriptions of documents.

In the Court of Public Opinion. These cases reinforced the growing view that the United States was in a struggle for its existence and faced enemies within. Evidence that has appeared since the collapse of the Soviet Union has indicated Hiss's guilt. Archived from the original PDF on March 10, The first was to thank the judge.

ISBN Archived from the original on October 17, Minnie Hughes attended teacher's college and was active in Baltimore society. Kutler August 6, Other historians [ failed verification ] felt that Haynes and Klehr's information was suspect because their publisher, Crown a division of Random House , obtained temporary and limited access to KGB files through a payment of money amount unspecified to a pension fund for retired KGB agents, of whom Vassiliev was one, as was KGB archivist Volkogonov.

Retrieved August 2, This trial resulted in an eight-to-four deadlocked jury. On January 25, , Judge Goddard sentenced Hiss to five years' imprisonment on each of the two counts, to run concurrently. As a consequence of the revelation's dramatic staging, both the film and the Baltimore documents soon became known collectively as the " Pumpkin Papers.

The judge denounced them as complicit in the deaths of American soldiers in Korea and sentenced them to death, even in the face of a letter from FBI Director J. Once arrested, Gold also confessed and implicated a soldier and his wife from whom he had picked up a report on the bomb in New Mexico in — David and Ruth Greenglass, whose code names were Caliber and Wasp, respectively.

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