Listen to CIA Director Jim Woolsey, talking to Congress in 1994 about trying to prevent intelligence threats from

within the US government.

It is a bit like playing goalie on a hockey team in which you can never let a single shot get past you.

Of course, Woolsey was testifying because a shot had gotten past the goalie, the head of the CIA's own Russian counterintelligence unit, Aldrich Ames,

along with his wife, had been passing secrets to the Soviet Union for nine years.

Ames revealed more than a hundred covert operations and

betrayed at least 30 agents including some who were later executed by the

Soviets and he was not the first spy to allude authorities.

Who's the liar might well be the title of the drama which unfolds before a packed caucus room

where the House All-American Affairs Committee members swear in Alger-Hiss, former State where in

Alger Hiss, former State Department Executive.

In 1948,

hiss, a former government official who helped create the United Nations

in the aftermath of World War II was accused of espionage

on behalf of the Soviets by self-confessed

former communist and magazine editor Whitaker Chambers.

Mr. Hiss, certainly the closest friend I ever had in a Communist Party.

Mr. Hiss represents the concealed enemy against which we are all fighting and I am fighting. I testified against him with

remorse and pity.

Hiss denied the claims, denied any association with the Communist Party or with Chambers.

I can only regard his present features, pictures and in looking at him as having a

certain familiarity. The smoking gun in the case of Alger hiss was discovered

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