Cold+War+ELR

Cold War
Alger Hiss- Alger was a diplomat who had served in Roosevelt's administration, attended the Yalta Conference, and taken part in organizing the United Nations. He was convicted of perjury, or lying under oath, for giving secret documents from the State Department to Whittaker Chambers. Chambers made this claim against Hiss in 1948 and testified that Hiss had given him the documents between 1937 and 1938.

The Rosenbergs- The Rosenbergs were a New York couple who were members of the communist party and were charged with heading a Soviet spy ring after a British Scientist admitted to sending information to the Soviet Union in 1950. The Rosenbergs denied the charges but were condemned to death for espionage.

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