November 27, 1954: Alger Hiss Released

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🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Sixty-seven years ago, former State Department official and suspected Soviet spy Alger Hiss was released from prison after serving almost four years for perjury. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Saturday, November 27th, 2021.
0:07.0	On this day in 1954, American diplomat and suspected Soviet spy, Alger Hiss, was released from prison after serving four years for perjury.
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0:56.0	Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Today we're covering the release of
1:02.5	Alger Hiss, a U.S. State Department official suspected of smuggling information to the USSR.
1:09.5	Now let's go back to November 27, 1954 to Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
1:19.6	Alger Hiss left prison the same way he went in, vehemently asserting his innocence.
1:29.3	44 months behind bars hadn't changed his story.
1:33.3	He maintained that all of the charges against him were a lie,
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