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Hiss-Chambers Three-page teletype,
largely illegible copy, mentions “Carl”, Ware, Wadleigh, Hiss. December 7, 1948 urgent
re Chambers investigation: Copies of reports on case to be supplied T.J.
Duncan, special assistant to A.G. December 6, 1948
teletype: Samples of typewritten copies of State Department documents
produced by Chambers at deposition and attributed by him to Hiss should be compared to
documents known to have been produced on Hiss' typewriter. December 6, 1948
Campbell to Hoover re interview w/ Wadleigh December 5, 1948
Randolph to Fletcher memo re supplying DOJ signed statements of Chambers and Hiss, Harry Dexter
White's handwriting samples December 7, 1948
Fletcher to Ladd memo re transmission of memo on Wadleigh
interview to DOJ December 4, 1948
Dougherty to Fletcher memo re interviews; mentions Peyton Ford, Whearty, Donegan December 3, 1948
Fletcher to Ladd memo: Redacted source delivered documents to FBI in case
State Department puts a "freeze" on relevant documents, as source
fears. December 7, 1948 Hottel to Hoover memo re delivery of signed statement of Wadleigh December 6, 1948
teletype to SAC-NY: Immediately interview Hedi
Massing concerning Wadleigh December 6, 1948 Jones
to Fletcher memo: Donegan instructs bureau to
interview Priscilla Hiss December 1, 1948 Hoover
to Campbell: FBI lab has concluded that handwriting is that of Hiss December 7, 1948 urgent
telex: Of 65 typewritten documents Chambers produced at deposition, one
matches Royal Elite; the other 64 match Woodstock Pica December 4, 1948
teletype to SAC-NY, Washington re possible subpoena: Henry Julian Wadleigh, Henry Hill Collins, Jr., Nathan Levine, David December 4, 1948 WFO to
NY, December 6, 1948 WFO to
Hoover teletype: W/ ref. to ID of State Dept. docs, Jack D. Neal
"requests that his name be kept in strictest confidence inasmuch as the
recent publicity in this matter is causing considerable concern at the State
Department." December 5, 1948 Jones
to Fletcher memo: White's handwriting samples, Chambers' and Hiss' signed statements to
be turned over to Whearty of DOJ; December 1, 1948
SAC-WFO to Hoover: Chambers supplied 65 typewritten pages, five pages
handwritten notes. Hiss
"admitted that the 65 typewritten pages appeared to be authentic copies
of State Department documents and that four of the five smaller sheets
appeared to be in his handwriting." Hiss "wondered who
stole them ... from his desk." Mentions Col. Boris Bukov
(Bykov, Bucoff). November 23, 1948 Ladd to Hoover: Cites Assistant U.S.
Attorney Thomas J. Donegan to the effect that
Assistant Attorney General Alexander M. Campbell, head of the Criminal
Division at Truman Justice, “wants to institute perjury charges against
Chambers” for not revealing documents until Hiss sued him for libel;
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's handwritten addendum comments, “I wonder
why they don't move against Hiss
also.” October 21, 1948
Fletcher to Ladd memo, 3 pp: WaPo reports "key witness" W. Marvin
Smith found dead from a fall down a Justice Dept. stairwell; no witnesses to
his fall. Smith had testified before a HUAC subcommittee Aug. 24 that he had
notarized Hiss' signiture on the title of his 1929 Ford, alleging
transfer of the car to Cherner Motor Co., which
never had the car or any record of the transaction. Chambers testified that Hiss wanted to donate the
car to the Communist Party and that J. Peters arranged the phony transfer to Cherner, where a C.P. go-between was employed who
transferred the car to the Party. Hiss testified that he
gave the car to Chambers. WaPo clip appended. October 7, 1941 SAC-WFO
to Hoover cover memo, 3pp. According to this report,
Hiss was one of 21
people named by Chambers in his original FBI interview in 1942 who were
already subjects of investigation by the Bureau at that time. In fact, the
FBI had by then already alerted the State Department about Hiss; the department had dismissed
the charges on the basis of Hiss'
own denial. Chambers had named Hiss (along with Adler,
Coe, Currie, et al.) to
Assistant Secretary of State Adolph Berle some nine
years before this report, in 1939. In 1943, the Bureau obtained Berle's notes, and found that nine of those named for the
first time therein were already subjects of FBI investigation. In a 1945
interview, ten of those named by Chambers had already been under
investigation. TABLE
OF CONTENTS
Chambers' Allegations
Concerning Alger Hiss
September 8, 1948 6 pp
Ladd to Hoover summary memo on Chambers; Analysis finds 21 of those named by
Chambers in 1942 were already subjects of FBI investigations; of those listed
in Berle's notes as named by Chambers in 1939
(obtained by the Bureau in 1943), nine were already subjects of
investigations; of those named by Chambers in 1945, ten had already been
under investigation. Concludes, "The Bureau in retrospect was probably
derelict in not opening a control case in 1942 regarding the entire picture,
such as was done with the allegations of Elizabeth Bentley in 1945. September 7, 1948 Ladd
to Hoover cover memo for "attached files" (missing), ref. Nov. 25,
1945 Hoover-Byrnes conference re Gregory Case; Nov. 8, 1945 letter to White
House ("the day after Benley furnished
information to the New York office"); Oct. 11, 1945 conference w/Acheson
re Alger Hiss. September 7, 1948
urgent teletype Baltimore to Hoover, SAC-NY: report delayed pending Chambers
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