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Who was Alger Hiss and what did he do?​

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Answer: Alger Hiss was a self-avowed former communist agent who turned against the party and became editor of "Time" magazine. He told HUAC that Alger Hiss had passed classified State Department documents through him to the Soviet Union. He produced microfilms of the documents when Hiss sued him for slander.

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he was an american government who was accused of spying for the Soviet union .He was later convicted of perjury because of this

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