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- <text id=92TT2539>
- <title>
- Nov. 09, 1992: Proving a Negative
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Nov. 09, 1992 Can GM Survive in Today's World?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- NATION
- Proving a Negative
- </hdr><body>
- <p>A Russian official finds no evidence that Alger Hiss was a spy
- </p>
- <p> Of all the cold war mysteries, none was as perplexing as the
- espionage case against Alger Hiss. A former State Department
- official, he was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviets,
- tried before a House committee led by Congressman Richard
- Nixon, and served a four-year term for perjury. Yet he has
- staunchly maintained his innocence, even in the face of
- microfilm evidence produced by former TIME editor Whittaker
- Chambers. Now comes word from an unlikely but authoritative
- source that Hiss, 87, may not have spied. After researching "a
- great amount of materials," General Dmitri Volkogonov, chairman
- of the Russian government's secret military-intelligence
- archives, announced he could find no evidence that Hiss had
- spied for Russia. That, skeptics note, doesn't mean Hiss is
- innocent -- just that Volkogonov didn't find anything, which is
- a bit different from finding there was nothing.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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