Informative and well laid out site on Alger Hiss, the US State Department official convicted in 1950 of perjury following accusations by Whittaker Chambers that he was a secret communist. The site brings together the historical background, the arguments and evidence in favour of and against Hiss (including recent material from Russian files), and includes audio files of interviews with Hiss and others, and video clips of American newsreel coverage of the story. Uses Real Player. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 08/06/2011. This does not include access to the moving images.