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In a cramped front bedroom on the second floor of a narrow rowhouse in Georgetown, 80-year-old Timothy Hobson declares, “This is where I was laid up with a broken leg.” It was so long ago, the winter ...

Alger Hiss was a prominent New Dealer who accompanied Franklin Roosevelt to Yalta and was later revealed to be a Soviet agent. He advised FDR to trust Stalin’s assurances that he would be a ...

An author who has researched the Cold War's most famous espionage case said new evidence suggests another US diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent who fed US secrets to Moscow. The ...